Scripts Quotes - Page 14

• It's exotic for me to be given a script that's already written, and be given a pay cheque, and asked to dress up and play, and that's all.

  Tilda Swinton

  Play, Dresses, Exotic

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed me on his computer a documentary-type montage sequence of real penguins swimming, in an Esther Williams synchronized sort of way, and doing things I have never seen them do. Then he explained his vision of the film, asked me to read the script and to voice the character. I was cast a little bit later, and he let me do the singing as well!

  Brittany Murphy

  Real, Character, Swimming

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• In an ideal world the script is written lean and tight and therefore there are no scenes left on the cuttring room floor and therefore no extended edition.

  Peter Jackson

  World, Rooms, Scene

  "Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro Answer Hobbit Questions". Live chat, www.slashfilm.com. May 24, 2008.

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• Everything is in a script for a reason, and only by being part of a writing team (or writing it yourself), do you really understand the intention of every beat.

  Peter Jackson

  Team, Writing, Reason

  "Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro Answer Hobbit Questions". Online chat, www.slashfilm.com. May 24, 2008.

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• When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Cliche

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• If you have script problems and you don't fix them by the time you shoot, your script problems are now 40 feet tall.

  Bruce Campbell

  Feet, Problem, Tall

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• If money comes along I will take it. I just want good scripts that try to make you think. I've been offered lots of money in the past but I just know that I would abuse it and get drunk.

  Daniel Craig

  Past, Thinking, Drunk

  "Actor Daniel Craig talks Layer Cake and 007!". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. May 11, 2005.

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• As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good.

  Kevin Nealon

  Reading, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic. The words for me are secondary, but the chemistry between the actors is most important. However, you have to go by the script because it's related to production, otherwise you will not finish your project.

  Tommy Wiseau

  Important, Directors, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Writers get to stay with the piece. They don't just turn the script in and somebody else takes it over and goes out and produces it and edits it and all that stuff. We stay with the piece all the way through.

  Wanda Sykes

  Pieces, Stuff, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For me, I just like to be as fun as possible, but I do like to bring a lot to a character. Given the script or the show, I know my boundaries, limits, and how far I can go with it. As far as me choosing these characters that have a lot of personality, I don't necessarily think it's intentional. I just think that I try and come up with a backstory of who they are, depending on the script or how rounded these characters are, and just go from there.

  Katie Cassidy

  Fun, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I write the script; nobody sees it, not the people that put the money in the picture. I cast who I want, and make the film. That's why I've always felt the only thing standing between me and greatness, is me. There's no excuse for me not to be great except that I'm not.

  Woody Allen

  Writing, Greatness, People

  "Woody Allen On ‘Irrational Man’, His Movies & Hollywood’s Perilous Path – Cannes Q&A" by Mike Fleming Jr, deadline.com. May 14, 2015.

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• I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script that has a woman at the center.

  Linda Woolverton

  Writing, Differences, Female

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative ways to help externalize what they're thinking.

  Gillian Flynn

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• As a director who does not like to write, I am always looking for scripts that I can contribute to through directing. I don't want to do the same thing that the writer is doing; I want to add an angle or highlight a theme.

  Jen McGowan

  Writing, Directors, Doe

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Jackson doesn't bother to read the scripts anymore. He just checks to make sure he has one loud scene where he gets to shout, then cashes the paycheck.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Cash, Scene, Checks

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• I read the script just once, and then forget it.I just deal with what I see every day on the screen and whetherI believe it and understand it.

  Thelma Schoonmaker

  Believe, Forget, Deals

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• You have to be a great storyteller. And you have to master the tools that you have to tell the story which are, inorder of importance, the script, the actors and then thetechnical means.

  John Frankenheimer

  Mean, Tools, Stories

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• Well, I think there was a time when I first started that there was such a thing called 'a woman's film' and there were certain scripts that women would make. But I think that's changed a lot now. I think that if a woman director walks into a room with a script, it doesn't really matter what the subject matter is, or the genre is, so long as the financiers feel that the woman has the skills to make the film.

  Gurinder Chadha

  Thinking, Genre Is, Skills

  "It's A Wonderful Afterlife - Gurinder Chadha interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I have thus decided to make a certain film and now begins the complicated and difficult-to-master work. To transfer rhythms, moods, atmosphere, tensions, sequences, tones and scents into words and sentences in a readable or at least understandable script. This is difficult but not impossible.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Atmosphere, Scent, Tone

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• Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.

  Vince Gilligan

  Jobs, Writing, Hands

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The summer gig turned into my day job. I was an arts administrator who helped make indie flicks. At the filmmakers' encouragement, I tried shooting a couple of shorts of my own. Directing was stressful, it was not my strength. But writing the scripts and helping others with their scripts - that was a gas. Making stuff up the way I wanted to see it was the biggest kick I ever experienced.

  Karen Walton

  Summer, Encouragement, Art

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I wrote lots of scripts that never got made and they were terrible. I thought they were good at the time. You can't write two scripts and expect your career to take off. Keep writing. Be you. Be original. A lot of people go for a genre, which is fine if you can do that really well, but we all have such layered histories. We all come from a unique background. Write about your past, write about you. Or make stuff up, but make it about something that really matters.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Writing, Unique, Past

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In the case of my second film The Fish Child (El Niño Pez), I had written the novel about 5 years before I made into a film. In the case of The German Doctor I had published the novel a year before I started writing the script, I even had another project to shoot. But I had this idea of the powerful cinematic language from the novel that I couldn't let go of.

  Lucia Puenzo

  Letting Go, Children, Powerful

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• When I started writing the script I thought that maybe someone else would direct it, but then I started to fall for it so much that I left the other project and I put all my time on The German Doctor.

  Lucia Puenzo

  Fall, Writing, Doctors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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