Scripts Quotes - Page 19

• It's an ongoing process, in the script, on the set and in the editing room, to make sure you are being true to the emotion of the film without turning it into a melodrama, and making sure you're getting all the laughs you can without it turning into just some stupid comedy.

  Jon Turteltaub

  Stupid, Editing, Laughing

  Source: collider.com

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• The role always attracts me. Sometimes I can read something and I can barely see the rest of the script.

  Brigid Brannagh

  Roles, Sometimes, I Can Read

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• But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.

  John Lloyd Young

  Character, Insight, Shows

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh, I just have to do that!" It fell into place very quickly.

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen

  Thinking, Ideas, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• It was just hilarious how my first reaction was, "Oh, no, it's another vampire show. I'm not interested." And then, I read the script and thought it was brilliant.

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen

  Vampire, Firsts, Brilliant

  Source: collider.com

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• When I read the script, I said to one of the producers, "I know you probably want Jonathan Harker really fluffy, but I'm not gonna do that. It needs to be a mask. There needs to be a duel between Harker and Dracula."

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen

  Needs, Want, Fluffy

  Source: collider.com

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• We read the [Dracula] scripts, but Jess [De Gouw] and I are completely taken out of the hunts and anything with Van Helsing. We're just living our lives, as our characters.

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen

  Taken, Character, Vans

  Source: collider.com

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• My older brother always tells me I changed as a person when I saw 'Ace Ventura.' Because when I saw 'Ace Ventura', I became obsessed. I watched the movie as many times as I had to - back then, you couldn't go on the Internet and find the script - so I watched it as many times as I could to write my own script of 'Ace Ventura.'

  Eliza Coupe

  Brother, Writing, Goes On

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career.

  Nora Ephron

  Summer, Writing, Kids

  "Nora on Hollywood: In Her Own Words", www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 10, 2012.

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• My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel...

  John Hurt

  Taken, Novel, Springboards

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2000.

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• I'm a highly, highly, highly creative human being. I write music all the time. I write scripts constantly. I run my own production company. I'm also a very determined businesswoman. I've a town to deal with. I've got a lot of things to do and I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care.

  Kim Basinger

  Running, Writing, Creative

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• You shouldn't speak until you know what you're talking about. That's why I get uncomfortable with interviews. Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think China should do? I'm a f***ing actor! They hand me a script. I act. I'm here for entertainment, basically, when you whittle everything away. I'm a grown man who puts on makeup.

  Brad Pitt

  Men, Thinking, Makeup

  "A Conversation Runs Through It". Interview with Bruce Handy, content.time.com. October 13 ,1997.

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• It's much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script.

  Michael Caine

  Winning, Awards, Careers

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• Only a few of us will admit it, but actors will sometimes read a script like this: bullshit...bullshit...my part...blah, blah, blah...my part...bullshit.

  Michael J. Fox

  Bullshit, Actors, Sometimes

  Michael J. Fox (2011). “Lucky Man: A Memoir”, p.35, Random House

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• Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.

  Al Pacino

  Payday, Bigs, Show Me

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• When you make the film, there's a big difference between when you're in your own home at the typewriter, and when you're standing on a mountain, or on a street corner, and buses are coming by-it's a different reality. You make a million changes that were never in the script, but that reality dictates.

  Woody Allen

  Home, Reality, Differences

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• Fun, that's the word I keep on using. That's the word I worry about when other writer's scripts get too dark. Optimistic. Fun. And to be optimistic and have fun there's got to be a darkness there. I think that's a very British attitude.

  Russell T Davies

  Fun, Attitude, Optimistic

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• Wait a minute, words in the prompter, script on my desk, vending machine upstairs out of Funyuns... the writers are back!

  Jon Stewart

  Waiting, Machines, Desks

  "Listening In as Writers Return to Late-Night Shows". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. February 14, 2008.

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• I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand.

  Melanie Laurent

  Character, Practice, Hands

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• There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!

  Jim Rohn

  Ignorant, Wish, Lasts

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Aug 20, 2015

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• The most important thing is the script.

  Martin Scorsese

  Important, Indigenous, Important Things

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• I don't know how I absorb things, but I do. I just absorb them. I don't over read the script, and I don't really ever spend much time learning it.

  John Noble

  Know How, Knows

  Source: collider.com

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• The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.

  Abdellatif Kechiche

  Writing, Here And There, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• Working in television, many times you read a script, you work on the pilot, and then you play the waiting game to see if you're able to make it a series.

  Mena Suvari

  Games, Play, Waiting

  Source: collider.com

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• The thing that I look for in a script- I'm not looking for anything next because you never know where life's going to take you so you can't just expect I want to do this next. So I'm not expecting anything, I'm just hoping.

  Julia Garner

  Looks, Want, Next

  Source: collider.com

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