Scripts Quotes - Page 15

• As a young filmmaker, I shot a lot of stuff because I wanted to make sure that I got everything, but now I've gotten much more precise with my shooting. Editing is a whole other layer because then, sometimes you realize characters don't even need to say this or that. It becomes an issue of exposition, and over-explaining something. In the script, I'd reinforce certain things about what I wanted people to know two or three times, but in the editing room, I'd be like, "I only need to say this once, maybe twice."

  Storm Saulter

  Character, Editing, Two

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a script, a lot more start-up resources. It may be self-perpetuating.

  Thom Powers

  Self, Cameras, Needs

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think having six people all with different energies and different perceptions all working around a script is quite profound. It’s not about, oh that’s what you should be doing.

  Jihan El-Tahri

  Thinking, People, Profound

  "Africa First 2012 Profile: Advisor Jihan El-Tahri On Pressures, Successes & Criticisms Of Program". Interview with Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. April 10, 2012.

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• If the young filmmakers ask themselves enough questions and come up with enough answers and get the scripts tight enough.

  Jihan El-Tahri

  Answers, Enough, Come Up

  "Africa First 2012 Profile: Advisor Jihan El-Tahri On Pressures, Successes & Criticisms Of Program". Interview with Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. April 10, 2012.

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• There's a way of thinking that comes with being an editor that is incredibly useful on the set. It's not just a vocabulary thing or a right-to-left thing or script supervisor stuff. It's a way of thinking about the film and the shots and the way they fit together, what you need and what you don't need, and what you can get away with if you have to.

  Joe Dante

  Thinking, Vocabulary, Editors

  "INTERVIEW: What You Can Get Away With: The Collegial Cutting Room Collaborators of Joe Dante, Part 2". Interview with Peter Tonguette, www.indiewire.com. January 14, 2012.

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• There are people I'm drawn to that you just can't do a tiny, no-budget movie with. I would like to pursue some of that stuff, to see if I could do a movie with some of those people. And I don't really write scripts myself, but if I read a script I thought was really great, I would totally be up for doing a more traditional movie. It's just that I don't exist in that world.
  right now.

  Joe Swanberg

  Writing, People, World

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• If I were an immigrant Latino not born in the US, I could not have written Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably Journey to the Heart of America book. And that is because many of the Whitopians would not have been comfortable talking about their views on immigration, talking about their views on taxes. And they wouldn't have spilled to me the new script on race and poverty as they did.

  Richard Benjamin

  Book, Heart, Journey

  "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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• The press is going to have to learn anew that it's possible to work in an environment that is not so toxic and to readopt those kinds of techniques. The relationship between the press and the Clinton White House during the later period was not a healthy one. There was a lot of hostility and a lot of suspicion. This administration has done systematically what no other administration had done. They came in with a corporate mentality, an ability to stay on script that was without parallel.

  Ted Gup

  White, House, Healthy

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted to make a sibling rivalry story. So when I was writing the script, the football was getting in the way of the drama. One day, I saw Michael Haneke's Funny Games, which is probably the most violent film I've ever seen - but the violence is off camera. When I finished watching the film, I said, 'Hey, that's what I have to do.' Haneke gave me this solution.

  Carlos Cuaron

  Sports, Football, Drama

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I just wrote a really cool script. It's called "One Track Mind." It's an origin story about the most successful and the most foul-mouthed, outrageous songwriter in history.

  Catherine Hardwicke

  Successful, Track, Mind

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I find that a lot of my best character stuff and ideas come unwittingly from novels. In scripts, it's a lot about the outward signs of whatever's happening - you have the end result. Whereas in a novel you get a buildup of the whys and wherefores, and you're let into the backstory.

  Alison Pill

  Character, Ideas, Stuff

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.

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• I like it when actors depart from the script to find their characters.

  Fatih Ak?n

  Character, Actors

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm not disciplined in terms of scheduling. I work best late at night, but I can't do that when I'm on a TV show - our hours are roughly 10-6:30, so I have to go to sleep at a reasonable hour. So I'll sometimes write fiction for an hour or two in the evenings, or several hours on the weekend afternoons - unless I'm actively writing a script for the show I'm working on, in which case there's no time to write fiction at all.

  Nick Antosca

  Writing, Sleep, Weekend

  Interview with Shane Jones, logger.believermag.com. September 16, 2013.

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• Its true, Im the youngest, highest-grossing French director. I have a few records, but no one knows or simply doesnt care. Thats good, because I like that. Ultimately, I want to keep working, making a lot of movies, and get better at it. Its about finding great scripts and bringing them to life.

  Louis Leterrier

  Get Better, Directors, Records

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• I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

  Kareena Kapoor

  Character, Research, Film

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• Take a favorite trick of yours and write a 'gestures script' how could you improve clarity [using gestures].

  Roberto Giobbi

  Writing, Gestures, Clarity

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• I look forward to every script that comes down the pike.

  Colin Cunningham

  Looks

  "Colin Cunningham Talks FALLING SKIES Season 2, the Fun of Being the Antagonist, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 07, 2012.

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• I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.

  Rhianna Pratchett

  Support, Being There, Enjoy

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• I had written a script called "Freed," which I had wanted to direct.

  Dan Gilroy

  Wanted, Direct, Written

  "Dan Gilroy Talks 'Nightcrawler,' The Death Of The Mid-Sized Film, 'Bourne Legacy' And More". Interview with Drew Taylor, www.indiewire.com. February 12, 2015.

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• A script like Nightcrawler gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision thats mine, which is exciting.

  Dan Gilroy

  Opportunity, Giving, Vision

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• I am here to act only in films with good script.

  Lara Dutta

  Film

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• I don't watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of 'Grimm', I get a little tense because I know someone's going to jump out of somewhere.

  Bitsie Tulloch

  Scary, Watches, Littles

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 16, 2012.

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• My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'

  Jason Blum

  Reading, Want, Judgment

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• I’ve always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so dialogue intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.

  Jonathan Glazer

  Dialogue, Audience, Informing

  "INTERVIEW: Shooting the “Beast”; Jonathan Glazer Tames the Gangster Genre". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. June 12, 2001.

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• After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.

  David Twohy

  Visual Effects, Visuals, Budgets

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