Script Quotes - page 6

When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can. (Louis Malle)
Well, PT Anderson sent me a script of Boogie Nights which I let lay around my house for about three months, then one day I'm cleaning my office and decided that I'd better read this before the guy calls me back. I never put it down, bro. View quote
Luis Guzman
Normally, when I read a script, I read 30 pages, and then go have a cup of tea and come back. And then, I read 20 pages and go make a phone call, and then go back to it. View quote
Luke Pasqualino
I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional. View quote
Lynn Shelton
I love involving actors at all levels - and they have to know that I want to hear their contributions, with dialogue, with story suggestions, with script changes, whatever. View quote
Lasse Hallstrom
I learn the whole script before I show up. View quote
Lee Majors
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. View quote
Marc Forster
I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life. View quote
Marguerite Moreau
Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script. View quote
Douglas Wood
There's a certain arrogance to an actor who will look at a script and feel like, because the words are simple, maybe they can paraphrase it and make it better. View quote
Mary Steenburgen
The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script. (Max von Sydow)
I'm a sucker for a funny script. And then, as soon as I don't wanna be, one comes along and grabs me. View quote
Meg Ryan
But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering. View quote
Mel Tillis
I like to begin every screenplay with a burst of delusional self-confidence. It tends to fade pretty quickly, but (for me, at least) there doesn't seem to be any other way to start writing a script. View quote
Michael Arndt
Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days. View quote
Mike Figgis
If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think. View quote
Miranda Otto
I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting. View quote
Olivia Thirlby
Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered. View quote
Pete Postlethwaite
I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started. View quote
Preston Sturges
I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines. View quote
Patricia Clarkson
In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character. (Rachael Harris)
As much as most of the actors were kind of curious to know what their character meant in relation to the script and to the plot, they really were quite happy to be part of the adventure of not knowing. View quote
Radha Mitchell
Well, obviously I was excited by the idea that Woody Allen was going to direct it. But at the same time, the script itself and the character was really interesting. View quote
Radha Mitchell
My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script. View quote
Rae Dawn Chong
I think that my script, if it gets used, would be great. But if it doesn't, I think it inspired them. View quote
Rae Dawn Chong