Scripts Quotes - Page 23

• You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building.

  Bruce Campbell

  Building, Made, Blueprints

  "WonderCon: Bruce Campbell Talks EVIL DEAD, Premiering at SXSW, His Planned Involvement in the Sequel, ARMY OF DARKNESS 2, and Upcoming Projects". Interview with Haleigh Foutch, collider.com. March 31, 2013.

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• When you are shooting with a robot you can't improvise. You can't really... the script is kind of the script.

  Jake Schreier

  Robots, Shooting, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• Cinematography was incredibly foreign to me, so I read as much as I could about it. Once I figured out that it was just photography with a set shutter speed, I got some slide film and I just went about storyboarding the script and taking snapshots. I took a ton of time doing it just to make sure I knew exactly what I was doing. By the end of it I knew what the film was going to look like - my exposure and the composition and everything. I wasn't scared of cinematography anymore.

  Shane Carruth

  Photography, Looks, Snapshots

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• What I really love, is finding a script and fantasizing and going to a different world and kind of portraying a character that is interesting. Because other lives interest us, that's why we read magazines like People and try and fascinate and drool over what other people are doing.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Character, Love Is, People

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .

  Michael Pitt

  Always Trying, Too Much, Sometimes

  "Michael Pitt Plays Haneke's Games". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. March 20, 2008.

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• I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.

  Jack Nicholson

  Directors, Looks, Likes

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• Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them.

  Jack Nicholson

  Might, Way, Sometimes

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• Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from the clichés about the three-act play - structure, development.

  Jack Nicholson

  Play, Three, Development

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• On the set of an independent film you can tell that nobody is doing it for the money. Everyone is there because they love the script. A smaller budget sort of unifies everyone; it's a real team effort and that's amazing. But these opportunities just don't present themselves that often for me, so basically any chance I get to do something different I jump on it.

  Will Ferrell

  Real, Team, Independent

  "Will Ferrell: 'I Am Kind Of Boring To Me'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. August 3, 2011.

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• I'm just an actor. It's the way the script is written, and it's easy. I don't have think about it. When you receive the script, you know pretty well how to play it, apart from little technicalities like the accent.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Thinking, Play, Actors

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• I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to write scripts for television. I wrote for my comedy act. Then I wrote screenplays, and then I started writing New Yorker essays, and then I started writing plays. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the New Yorker essays, but they were comic. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. In my head, there was a link between everything. One thing led to another.

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Play, Long

  "Steve Martin: The Powells.com Interview". Interview with Jill Owens, www.powells.com. November 29, 2010.

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• You always have to write script with a budget in mind. Although it's always good to write the big story, you really have to think about how things are going to work as far as cast, effects and settings. It's a process. You have to always think budget and then execute and make it happen.

  Harrison Smith

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

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• The script in many ways is limiting and novel is liberating. You get to go into the heads of your characters and their background and have fun with them; something you are discouraged from doing with a script. With the novel, I can tell you what the characters are thinking, I can tell you their view of the world, background information, things I wouldn't dare touch in the script.

  Juliet Asante

  Fun, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.premiumtimesng.com

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• I wrote a script, and I gave it to a guy who reads scripts, and he read it, and he liked it, but he said he thinks I ought to re-write it. I said, "Fuck that - I'll just make a copy!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Comedy Central Presents (Mitch Hedberg)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. January 5, 1999.

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• It took me three, four years, to get from my first film to my second film, banging on doors, trying to get people to give me a chance. Writing, struggling, with no money in the bank, working as an editor on the side. Working as a cameraman on the side. Getting little jobs, eking out a living. Trying to stay alive, and pushing a script that nobody wanted.

  George Lucas

  Jobs, Struggle, Writing

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• I can picture certain things in my mind, while writing the script, but then I can also tell that everyone else might be a little confused about what it's supposed to look like at the end of the day. But it all works out. I find a way.

  Rob Zombie

  Confused, Writing, Work Out

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I get scripts all the time, but I read this [Baggage Claim] thoroughly, and I loved it. It was light hearted, cute, sweet, and funny. I told my agent that I liked the script, but I did let my acceptance of the role slide a little, until I was watching television one day; scrolling through the stations, and there was this play. And I don't like plays made for the screen. But, this one, "Suddenly Single", caught my attention.

  Jill Scott

  Cute, Sweet, Acceptance

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and [Latino roles] were either nonexistent or written as the maid or a drug dealer. We're no longer just that. I'll play any part that challenges me. What's important is that all races have choices.

  Eva Mendes

  Reading, Race, Play

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.

  William H. Macy

  Joy, Shooting, Easy

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there's a movie. It's very evocative; it's like a first cut because you hear 'She walked to the door,' and you visualize all these things. 'She opens the door' . . . because you read the stage directions, too.

  Al Pacino

  Reading, Cutting, Doors

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• The truth of the matter is this - I never look for films specifically, because ultimately if the fundamentals of the character and the script and the director aren't there, it makes it a moot point.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Character, Directors, Looks

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• The hardest work that actors have done, including myself, is on poorly written scripts. And when you first start out you do anything. I did a lot of crap. I did more crap than I can tell you. But you did it because you needed the money. You have to pay for your pictures and resumes, and classes and insurance and food like everybody else. In those days if it was crap you just didn't put it on your resume.

  Bryan Cranston

  Class, Actors, Done

  "Bryan Cranston Talks Cohaagen, the End of BREAKING BAD, Turning Down X-MEN: FIRST CLASS & More on the Set of TOTAL RECALL". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Every film starts with the script.

  Wolfgang Petersen

  Film

  Source: www.aintitcool.com

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• He comes back with the script, and it's racist like a 1940's Newspaper.

  Katt Williams

  Funny, Humor, Racist

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• If I were an immigrant Latino not born in the US, I could not have written Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably Journey to the Heart of America book. And that is because many of the Whitopians would not have been comfortable talking about their views on immigration, talking about their views on taxes. And they wouldn't have spilled to me the new script on race and poverty as they did.

  Richard Benjamin

  Book, Heart, Journey

  "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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