Scripts Quotes

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.

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.

American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that.

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.

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.

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.

I don't have a stack of scripts.

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

I don't have wild dogs chasing people with scripts away from my door. I get my share. I've done okay. But I usually do independent stuff because that's mostly what I'm offered.

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

But most scripts are terrible. Most projects are bad, that's just kind of the way it is. And I'm not really attracted to those.

I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right.

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that. The reason I do that is because I know what it takes once I engage, what that means for me personally and for my wife.

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group.

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.

Females want other females to be really strong, so there are a whole lot of scripts that are basically just male parts renamed as a girl.

I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.

I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time I say anything - even 'pass the salt' - I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I'm saying that. Maybe that's what gives the impression that I'm saying one thing and thinking something else.

Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.