Scripts Quotes - Page 37

• Don't send me your script if you want me to play the black best friend; I just won't do that.

  David Oyelowo

  Play, Black, Want

  "David Oyelowo On Acting, His Royal Roots And The One Role He Won't Take". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 28, 2015.

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• Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be careful of slipping into ""psycho-speak," however. Kids pick up instantly your attempt at being a pseudo-shrink. Most resent it and are apt to tune out anything that sounds like you're reading a script from the latest child-psychology text.

  Marge M. Kennedy

  Children, Reading, Kids

  Marge M. Kennedy (1994). “The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. Its important to alternate between the two activities.

  Toni Servillo

  Character, Two, Giving

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• I really choose by what I like, i thought 'Alexander' was a super smart script. Just [costar] Steve [Carell] alone would have been enough. Gosh, I love working with that guy. He's just the best.

  Jennifer Garner

  Love, Smart, Guy

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• I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.

  Evan Daugherty

  Couple, Party, Writing

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• Most scripts that get written in Hollywood dont go anywhere.

  Evan Daugherty

  Hollywood, Written

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• The truth is, there are probably eight more Snow White scripts floating around out there. And once one Snow White script got hot, other people started pulling out their Snow White scripts.

  Evan Daugherty

  Eight, White, People

  "Screenwriter Evan Daugherty Talks SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN, the Film's Action-Adventure Style, and His TV Show AFTER THOUGHT". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. November 11, 2011.

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• A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

  Jon Hurwitz

  Comedy, Originals

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• What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

  Om Puri

  Bollywood, Film, Copies

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• I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

  Nicholas Jarecki

  Plenty, Written

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

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• On Stranger Than Fiction, the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.

  Marc Forster

  Writing, Fiction, Lines

  "Bond Week Interview: Quantum of Solace Director Marc Forster". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. November 11, 2008.

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• I don't ever like to feel myself in the position to demand of an actor that they trust I'm going to do something worthwhile. I feel a responsibility to articulate what it is I'm going to do. Whether that's showing them a full script or sitting down with them and describing my ideas in detail. It's a very healthy burden on me as a film director to be able to articulate what I want to do, to inspire actors, rather than just saying, take it on trust I'll be able to do something worthwhile.

  Christopher Nolan

  Responsibility, Ideas, Inspire

  Source: deadline.com

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• Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer becomes a celebrity tourist visiting the set, trying not to get in the way. It's very good for the ego, to go visit a film set if you are the writer, because they give you a special chair, and tell you where you can sit to watch the monitor. They make you feel special, but at the same time, they make it perfectly plain that you are irrelevant!

  Tom Stoppard

  Giving, Ego, Special

  Source: deadline.com

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• When I am writing I don't set a certain number of pages. I do know that the further into a script I get the faster it goes. As soon as you start making decisions you start cutting off all of the other possibilities of things that could happen. So with every decision that you make you are removing a whole bunch of other possibilities of where that story can go or what that character can do. So when I get maybe 2/3's of the way through I can see very clearly where it is going to go.

  Steven Zaillian

  Writing, Character, Cutting

  Source: collider.com

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• Seeing a film at the cinema, or a DVD or whatever at home, your brain is really receptive to not only whether the script's working, or if the actors are acting well, but also the colours.

  Crispian Mills

  Home, Dvds, Brain

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Some actors might just do one thing, and another actor does another thing. I do an awful lot of preparation with the script, really. What I do is repeat the script, over and over and over again. Through that, it's almost like it seeps into my enamel. I'm reading all the characters, as well as my own. That is where the bulk of my preparation goes into.

  Michael Fassbender

  Reading, Character, Preparation

  "Michael Fassbender Talks Haywire, Twelve Years a Slave, Prometheus, and X-men: First Class Sequel". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 17, 2012.

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• I structure the scripts and work on them on films and work on scenes with writers and but I haven't written a script myself, I really respect what they do and I'm fortunate I get to work with people that I really enjoy working with and we all kind of spitball and work together on these things, but I haven't written a script yet.

  Tom Cruise

  People, Together, Kind

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• I usually read a script from an audience perspective first, and then look more closely at the character only.

  Colm Meaney

  Character, Perspective, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real performing world. So you get a lot of things wrong and make a lot of mistakes and make a lot of bad choices.

  Woody Allen

  Real, Mistake, Home

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• The secret is to get a good cinematographer and a very good assistant director. If you get those and stay out of their way, and have good actresses, the script doesn't even have to be that extraordinary.

  Lester Persky

  Secret, Way, Actresses

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The script just can't commit the sin of being boring.

  Lester Persky

  Sin, Boring, Commit

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• To be able to make a living, I went into television. Not necessarily planned from the beginning, since I was more familiar with features, and had developed a few scripts.

  Alfons Adetuyi

  Television, Able, Familiar

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Truthfully, in the beginning [of MacGyver] this could have gone either way, and as it turned out there was a version that was done wrong, which I'm not even going to get into. It was a pretty good idea and I liked where it was going, but then we got a chance to restart with Peter Lenkov [as executive producer/showrunner], who brought his vision to it. I remember reading his pilot script and it was just so exciting that I started hopping around my room.

  Lucas Till

  Reading, Ideas, Vision

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• There is no question that, in 1980, Ronald Reagan had been portrayed as a war-monger, somebody who couldn't do anything off a script. And the one debate with President Jimmy Carter, he stood toe-to-toe and reassured people that he wasn't bound and determined to start World War III on the spot and could make a coherent statement.

  Mark Shields

  War, People, President

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You have this certain about of responsibility to play a fictitious character and you have a script that's guiding you and the other information of the custom department's choices, and the set department, "Where are you," and all those other pieces of information but you have to cull from your imagination the answer to all the unasked questions. And with a real person, there's someone to get that information from, perhaps.

  Melissa Leo

  Real, Responsibility, Character

  "Melissa Leo & Zachary Quinto Describe Snowden’s Dark Side Of Technology". Interview with Nicole Pajer, screenrant.com. September 14, 2016.

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