Script Quotes - page 3

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions. (Alex North)
You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script. View quote
John Taylor Gatto
But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script. View quote
Dick Van Dyke
But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that. View quote
Elizabeth Olsen
I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around. View quote
Christian Bale
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas. View quote
Michael Caine
When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk. View quote
Lana Parrilla
Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me. View quote
Victoria Abril
I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to. View quote
Alejandro Amenabar
I mean, the first "Back to the Future” is kind of a perfect script, I think. In terms of handling time travel the best, it depends on your definition. To me, that means it effectively uses it in the story. View quote
Rian Johnson
In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives. (Paul Reiser)
I had the advantage of reading the book, and when the script was first submitted to me, it was just another gangster story - the east side taking over the west side and all that. View quote
Edward G. Robinson
Actually, it was first a movie called Gale Force, which was a hurricane movie. That script never came together, and then the same deal was replaced with Cliffhanger. View quote
Renny Harlin
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. View quote
Aaron Ashmore
My manager got the script for Under the Dome, and I read it and just fell in love with the character. I grew up on Stephen King, and I love his whole aesthetic of the classic American story with supernatural events happening, so it just made sense. View quote
Alexander Koch
I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script. View quote
Alexander Payne
Working with Danny Thomas was truly an adventure every week. Danny didn't always say the words as they appeared in the script. I learned more by osmosis than by sitting down together. He was a force to be reckoned with: an explorer of television. View quote
Angela Cartwright
I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows. View quote
Anjelica Huston
I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.' View quote
Archie Panjabi
Howard Minsky had gotten the script to her agent prior to my involvement. View quote
Arthur Hiller
As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it. (Ajay Devgan)
I almost always do things that I like, in some form or fashion. Every once in awhile that means that I don't think the script is any good and I don't have any trust in the people, but the film is shooting in Sri Lanka, or somewhere like that, so I'm going. View quote
Billy Campbell
Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn't and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don't have to use them but you gotta hold them. View quote
Blair Underwood
It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character. View quote
Blair Underwood
I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing. View quote
Barbara Hershey