Scripts Quotes - Page 3

• I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Writing, Skeletons, Flesh

  The New York Times, January 22, 1978.

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• My closet is full of sad little scripts that didn't get made that have sad endings. It's very hard to get a movie made that has a sad ending.

  Nora Ephron

  Littles, Made, Closets

  Nora Ephron (2015). “Nora Ephron: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.60, Melville House

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• To be honest I don't watch the show, I don't watch any TV, so I have no idea what the show is about. I go to Hawaii, shot my scenes and script and 'Ciao.' I'm not a 'Lost' fanatic and it's a disappointment for thousands people and friends that are dying to know what will happen. They know more than me.

  Sonya Walger

  Disappointment, Ideas, People

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

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• I was a novelist first. But in the mid 80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, you know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.

  George R. R. Martin

  Years, People, Cost

  "'Thrones' Author George R.R. Martin Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. September 14, 2012.

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• If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.

  Olivia Colman

  Real, Thinking, Trying

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• There are so many scripts and they are fantastic. I think I would like to do something different, maybe something smaller.

  Emma Watson

  Thinking, Different, Fantastic

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• What is the right time [to discuss theology]? Whenever we are free from the mire and noise without, and our commanding faculty is not confused by illusory, wandering images, leading us, as it were, to mix fine script with ugly scrawling, or sweet-smelling scent with slime. We need actually 'to be still' (Ps. 46:10) in order to know God, and when we receive the opportunity, 'to judge uprightly' (Ps. 75:2) in theology.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Sweet, Confused

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• You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember.

  David Simon

  Acting, Remember, Capacity

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• If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it.

  Hugo Weaving

  Appeals, Ifs

  "Hugo Weaving on being Elrond, The Matrix's evil AI, and a kidnapper convict". Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2012.

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• A director should cast a person who fits into their script.

  Christina Ricci

  Directors, Fit, Should

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• All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.

  Javier Bardem

  Good Movie, Stories, Matter

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

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• When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.

  Penelope Cruz

  Character, Judging, Mind

  "Penelope Cruz Interview Broken Embraces". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. December 5, 2009.

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• I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.

  Lily Rabe

  Thinking, Want, Panic

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

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• Acting, films, scripts, is literally the only thing I’m 100 percent confident in. I know what I’m doing. I just understand it, and I love it. When I’m on set, that’s when I feel the most at home and in control.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Home, Acting, Film

  "Jennifer Lawrence: Game Changer" by Maggie Bullock, www.elle.com. November 8, 2012.

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• I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.

  Claudia Christian

  Christian, Causes, Good Christian

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• I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

  Bella Thorne

  Reading, Practice, Helping

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

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• I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.

  Emile Hirsch

  Trying, Genre, Staying

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• In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.

  Harry Shearer

  Cutting, Years, Cameras

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• Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.

  Sally Hawkins

  Mean, Directors, Different

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• When I was 16, I got 'Jamon, Jamon.' Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.

  Penelope Cruz

  Lying, Parent, Age

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• I try to look at the whole thing and say 'yes' to the projects that I cannot stop thinking about. If I read a script and the subject stays with me - then that's when I want to go to work.

  Penelope Cruz

  Thinking, Trying, Looks

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• The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.

  Judi Dench

  Firsts, Lord, Theater

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• When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me.

  Shane West

  Kind, Film, Shows

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• Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Want, Tvs, Freak

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

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• A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

  Peter Mullan

  Directors, Actors, Useless

  Guardian interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2003.

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