Scripts Quotes - Page 29

• When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die. I've got to be in The Guinness Book of World Records for having the most heart attacks on television.

  Alan Dale

  Book, Heart, Television

  "Alan Dale: The Nicest Bad Guy in The Biz". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. February 6, 2013.

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• My older brother always tells me I changed as a person when I saw 'Ace Ventura.' Because when I saw 'Ace Ventura', I became obsessed. I watched the movie as many times as I had to - back then, you couldn't go on the Internet and find the script - so I watched it as many times as I could to write my own script of 'Ace Ventura.'

  Eliza Coupe

  Brother, Writing, Goes On

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.

  John Lloyd Young

  Character, Insight, Shows

  Source: www.npr.org

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• All movies are alchemy and time is one of the ingredients that goes into the alchemy. You want the time to be right; you don't want to rush it. You need the right script, the right cast and the right feeling in the culture.

  Drew Goddard

  Feelings, Needs, Culture

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• When you make the film, there's a big difference between when you're in your own home at the typewriter, and when you're standing on a mountain, or on a street corner, and buses are coming by-it's a different reality. You make a million changes that were never in the script, but that reality dictates.

  Woody Allen

  Home, Reality, Differences

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• Only a few of us will admit it, but actors will sometimes read a script like this: bullshit...bullshit...my part...blah, blah, blah...my part...bullshit.

  Michael J. Fox

  Bullshit, Actors, Sometimes

  Michael J. Fox (2011). “Lucky Man: A Memoir”, p.35, Random House

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• My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel...

  John Hurt

  Taken, Novel, Springboards

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• Wait a minute, words in the prompter, script on my desk, vending machine upstairs out of Funyuns... the writers are back!

  Jon Stewart

  Waiting, Machines, Desks

  "Listening In as Writers Return to Late-Night Shows". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. February 14, 2008.

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• The most important thing is the script.

  Martin Scorsese

  Important, Indigenous, Important Things

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• Fun, that's the word I keep on using. That's the word I worry about when other writer's scripts get too dark. Optimistic. Fun. And to be optimistic and have fun there's got to be a darkness there. I think that's a very British attitude.

  Russell T Davies

  Fun, Attitude, Optimistic

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• A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career.

  Nora Ephron

  Summer, Writing, Kids

  "Nora on Hollywood: In Her Own Words", www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 10, 2012.

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• When I read the script, I said to one of the producers, "I know you probably want Jonathan Harker really fluffy, but I'm not gonna do that. It needs to be a mask. There needs to be a duel between Harker and Dracula."

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen

  Needs, Want, Fluffy

  Source: collider.com

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• The role always attracts me. Sometimes I can read something and I can barely see the rest of the script.

  Brigid Brannagh

  Roles, Sometimes, I Can Read

  Source: collider.com

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• Once you are shooting a movie, even if it's your own script, you have to let it go at a certain point. That's true for every film. It breaks up into phases where the thing that you have in front of you is the thing you have to address, and you can't worry about what you imagined a scene was going to like and that it came out differently, because that's what you have to make work.

  Todd Haynes

  Worry, Let It Go, Shooting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [Before I Go To Sleep] script was a great journey with all the twists and turns that were kind of unexpected. I had to finish the script, and I thought if we can emulate this in the film, it's going to be a really good film.

  Mark Strong

  Sleep, Journey, Twists

  Source: collider.com

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• Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.

  Aaron Ashmore

  Bumps, Littles, Firsts

  "Smallville's Pal, Jimmy Olsen". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. September 11, 2008.

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• Night to night, doing the clubs is a lot of fun too because you have a lot more freedom and you don't have to worry about swearing or going off the script or going long or going short. If you bomb, only a handful of people see it. On TV, a lot of people see it.

  Gary Gulman

  Fun, Night, Long

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• The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

  Abdellatif Kechiche

  Writing, Here And There, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• And then, movie-wise, I'm writing a couple of things. They're all comedies. It's the only way I know. I'm also being sent scripts, which is really nice, kind of off the back of this, so I don't necessarily have to generate my own stuff. I'm just looking for something that's explosively funny and relatable in equal measure.

  Dan Mazer

  Wise, Couple, Nice

  Source: collider.com

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• Flying is my favorite time in the world. When I'm sitting in a plane, it's amazing because it's quiet and there's no cell phones and no one to talk to you. It's my favorite time. I read all my scripts. I catch up on my movies. I sleep. It's the best. There's no one telling you, "Time to go!"

  Priyanka Chopra

  Sleep, Phones, Cells

  "Priyanka Chopra Talks Disney’s PLANES, Playing the Character Ishani, Hoping to Inspire Children with Her Confidence, Her Love of Flying & Her Competitive Spirit". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 13, 2013.

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• Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.

  David Twohy

  Writing, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• While you're making the film and working with the actors, if you want to have a little room to breathe and experiment and play, it grows, and you want that to happen. It's not enough to just shoot the script. You've gotta come up with new inspiration, as you shoot it. There's gotta be room for that and time for that, so it grows.

  David Twohy

  Inspiration, Play, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• I had a hard time on TV, the last time on television, so I wasn't sure that I wanted to do that again. But, I really am a big fan of Jenji and I knew this is her next thing, so I read it. And once I read the script, I was really, really impressed that there was a woman who was the centerpiece of her own story, and that she was in the center of her own narrative.

  Taylor Schilling

  Hard Times, Fans, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• I would say it was the directors. We have to give credit to the directors for this, because in the script, we just said, "Gru's Minions do this or do that" in the initial draft. And then, they came up with the characters' design and the philosophical concept of the Minions. And then, we started writing to that. We have to give a lot of credit to them.

  Cinco Paul

  Philosophical, Writing, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• I pretty much always choose characters. That's what I do. That's what I look for. I look for dynamics in a script and potential.

  Grant Bowler

  Character, Looks, Dynamics

  Source: collider.com

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