Scripts Quotes

I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts.

So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts.

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

I think when you're a bigger star you get many good scripts sent to you, and you have to choose which one you're going to gravitate toward, but I just try to gravitate toward the best-written one that's been thrown my way after a lot of girls have passed on it.

Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.

If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.'

I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want.

I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the '80s and '90s, but I was getting all these movie scripts.

Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all.

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

We were all thrown together on this show very rapidly, there was casting then a few days later a meeting where we all got to read the scripts and meet each other. Literally days after that we were on our way to Dallas.

Good scripts are hard to find.

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch.

The best thing for me is, when I'm not working, is to be at home and to have a script or two scripts is better, and to be just walking around the house and just thinking about the lines.

There's no one I trust in show business more than Sabrina Wind. She's my eyes and ears when I can't be there. She weighs in on everything, from scripts to sets to advertising.

From the very start of all of this, my mom has read the scripts first. And if she liked something, she let me read it. She told our agent what kinds of parts that we would want.

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

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year.

Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

You're always looking for good scripts and when they're not always forthcoming you go mad.

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.

The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another.

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.