Scripts Quotes

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

I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.

And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

Our characters were antiseptic but we weren't. And if you remember what we did on BATMAN, as the scripts were written very funny, we played them very straight.

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.

Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with.

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.

If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.

Nowadays I construct my books as if they're film scripts.

At this point, I'm happy to be part of something special. As an actor I liked to choose scripts that I'm passionate about.

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.

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

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christine would never hit the glass ceiling. I thought her dreams would take her. Maybe her dreams wouldn't take her where she wanted, but she still had her dreams.

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

I fix things now and then, more often tweak HTML and make scripts to do things.

Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.

In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.

We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.

I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.

I won't be able to do what I'm doing forever. There aren't that many scripts floating around for fifty-year-old chicks.

Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.

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.

Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

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