Scripts Quotes - Page 23

• When I get a script and do my work, and then show up on set and work, it's the same zone that I'm in when I'm in front of a canvas, or when I'm writing a story about one of my paintings, or when I'm playing music. Whatever I'm doing at any given time, it's the same exact zone.

  Michael Marisi Ornstein

  Writing, Playing Music, Stories

  Source: collider.com

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• It's very tricky to know when to stop. I think there are definitely moments where you feel that is the heart of a scene. When you're working on the script, you're looking for a handle on it.

  Oliver Parker

  Heart, Thinking, Moments

  Source: collider.com

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• Yeah, well I can't see a situation where I wouldn't at least re-write as a director something I was going to direct. At the moment, I wouldn't direct anything that I hadn't written. I can now say, as everybody else says, that it all depends on the script.

  William Monahan

  Writing, Directors, Moments

  Source: collider.com

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• So many times, you get a script and it says, "And then, the character cries," and you read the lines and think, "That would never make me cry. Those lines are so untruthful." My approach is just to be honest to the situation.

  Shailene Woodley

  Character, Thinking, Lines

  Source: collider.com

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• There are tons of different reasons why you do TV series and why you don't, and how it'll affect your career, and all that. Without a doubt, it has always come down to the script for me. I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles.

  Patrick Wilson

  Careers, Long, Doubt

  Source: collider.com

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• I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and practically.

  W. C. Fields

  Writing, Found, Premises

  W. C. Fields (2016). “W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts, and Articles”, p.376, Rowman & Littlefield

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• All failed lovers rewrite the script, as if one sexual detail or another might have tipped the balance of pain into destiny, either tragic or miraculous. History record the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

  Jean-Henri Fabre

  Pain, Destiny, Names

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• As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.

  Sally Phillips

  Jobs, Writing, Ideas

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• TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'

  Sally Phillips

  Tvs, Branding, Difficult

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• I have a very good memory for scripts. I can watch a show I like once, then remember about 90% of the script. But ask me who was in it, and I wouldn't have a clue.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Memories, Watches, Remember

  "A funny five minutes with Marcus Brigstocke". Mirror.Co.Uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. March 21, 2010.

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• I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting clas-ses. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Real, Drama, School

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• I've been pretty lucky - or slothful - in that I've never been a "career builder," I take the jobs that come along that feel right, and that's left me fairly open to all genres, really. But with "Caprica," the complex, dark and very smart script was the draw.

  Eric Stoltz

  Jobs, Smart, Dark

  "'Caprica': It's back, and so is Eric Stoltz". Interview with Jevon Phillips, latimesblogs.latimes.com. January 22, 2010.

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• The guy that picked me up at the airport in 1985 when I was out in L.A. for my first audition was selling a script. I was a nobody coming off a plane to read for a new show.

  Scott Bakula

  Airports, Guy, Firsts

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• A film can be big or small - I have to just fall in love with it. To connect with the character, the script, and the director. Sometimes they say to you, 'You should do that for your career; it's a big thing, people will go and see it,' but I wouldn't be able to, because my heart wouldn't be in it. I would drive people quite mad.

  Eva Green

  Falling In Love, Character, Heart

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• I'm trying to work only with established, respected directors. I took a lot of bad scripts and worked for a lot of lazy directors, and it was discouraging to go to the screenings and see that the director had added nothing, the editor had added nothing, there was nothing to see.

  Michael Caine

  Editors, Lazy, Trying

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• You know, the fact that every morning you get a script in your mailbox, that's going to stop. All these little pedestrian, mundane things. And the cash.

  Paul Reiser

  Morning, Cash, Littles

  "No longer 'Mad About You'" by Paul Vercammen, www.cnn.com. May 24, 1999.

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• The padded outfits, the bad scripts, the phony-looking sets... he dealt with it all. He had to. He was Superman.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Phony, Outfits

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• Every time I read anything, whether it be a book, a script, or anything, I automatically imagine myself as the boy in the plot. I don't know why. Seriously, anything. If I'm reading a magazine article or whatever, I picture myself as the kid people are talking about. It's really weird. I don't know why I do that.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Book, Reading, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Finishing, Littles, Little Things

  Source: collider.com

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• Whenever I'm doing any film, there's always three different things. There's the script, which is really just a blueprint. And then, you shoot the movie and it's an entirely different experience than you would expect from reading the script. And then, there's the whole post process and the editing, and it becomes something else entirely.

  Thomas Ian Nicholas

  Reading, Editing, Different Experiences

  Source: collider.com

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• If there's a cutaway, you need to get it then because it's only going to last [a few moments]. You have to edit the movie as you're shooting it in your head and communicate with your crew about how it's going to work. While making a movie, you have the luxury of storyboards and a script and a bigger crew and actors. I mean, it's so much easier.

  George Ratliff

  Mean, Luxury, Needs

  "Director George Ratliff Interview SALVATION BOULEVARD". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 13, 2011.

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• I'd love to say that every move I make is completely calculated and I'm sitting on a pile of scripts, sifting through them for the perfect role, but the fact is that there are a lot of talented people out there and there's a lot of competition in our business.

  Eric Balfour

  Moving, People, Perfect

  Source: collider.com

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• If you steal other people's characters, it doesn't work with the context of the scripts and what is written, so I wanted to make her my own. I was petrified, in the beginning, because it's such an iconic character, especially being a young lady myself.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Character, People, Stealing

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't think I've ever done a character like this before, so I couldn't really draw from previous roles. I've been known for doing a lot of comedies in England, so I don't think that would have worked. I completely went from scratch, with this one, and used the research and what was in the script, and spoke to Chris. It's all from in my mind ,rather than drawing from previous experiences or roles.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Character, Thinking, Drawing

  Source: collider.com

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• Hollywood is just so strange. It's like, everyone has a whole bunch of stuff boiling away and whichever one happens first, happens. That one, we're still in the process of, you know, trying to write the script. So, it's still very early stages at this point. Yeah.

  James Wan

  Writing, Trying, Hollywood

  Source: collider.com

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