Scripts Quotes - Page 26

• I've been so lucky - I worked with Jason Reitman twice, who has always been a really strong advocate for my voice, and has always really respected the scripts that I've brought him and is just the coolest.

  Diablo Cody

  Strong, Voice, Lucky

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• Doing a film, or being sent scripts to look at a certain character, it's very odd for me. I tend to take it very personally.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Character, Looks, Film

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• A lot of times, the script is the thing they care about least.

  Kevin Bacon

  Care

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• Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.

  Wesley Snipes

  White, Actors, Havens

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My idea of an actor is to be different persons with different roles. Every time a script interests me, I look for interesting characters because I intend to completely transport myself into it. This happens only because I am a very greedy actor. I am not part of the rat race because I am living a dream.

  Vidya Balan

  Dream, Character, Race

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• I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.

  Eddie Marsan

  Special, Actors, Terrible

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• When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me putting my pen to paper and writing a good page and making it work completely as a document unto itself. That's my first artistic contribution. If I do my job right, by the end of the script, I should be having the thought, 'You know, if I were to just publish this now and not make it . . . I'm done.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Jobs, Writing, Cinema

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• Sometimes I want to do something that's really funny and other times I read an indie script that is going to be made for nothing but I want to do it because I think that I can connect with something in the story.

  Brittany Snow

  Thinking, Stories, Want

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• Eric Roberts, for all the criticism he gets, is at least having fun with the script. His decision to devour large swaths of scenery locate him firmly in the tradition of Graham Crowden and Joseph Furst. Which is to say that he's not destined for fan acclaim, but he's easy to like if you're of the mind to.

  Phillip Sandifer

  Fun, Decision, Mind

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• I try to research or make up for myself what happened in any character's life. From when he was born until the first page of the script. I fill in the blanks.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Character, Trying, Research

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• This basic thing I always do: 'What happened between the character's birth, and page one of the script?' Anything that's not in the story, I'll fill in the blanks.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Character, Stories, Pages

  "My mother is very happy about it". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2008.

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• My criteria for doing theater has always been slightly different than my criteria with movies, in that there are a lot of reasons to do films, having to do with location, money, and first and foremost having to do with script and role and director.

  Stephen Lang

  Directors, Different, Roles

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• Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was a perfect script for she and I,' inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, 'Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?'

  Dick Cavett

  Sarcastic, Teacher, Stars

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.12, Macmillan

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• My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Book, Reading, Rooms

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• I'm a little older and fatter now, and I'm not exercising as much. My lifestyle these days involves a lot of beer and pasta. But there's something satisfying in letting your body go to hell. So maybe I won't get offered the same kind of role as before. So what? I'm happy to play the guy in his mid-30s who may be a little unhealthy. "Fat and arrogant" is what I'm bringing to the script.

  Luke Wilson

  Exercise, Beer, Play

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

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• That's the thing about prep, is that it's a joy to have it there and you can spend all this time prepping, but ultimately you have to look at your script and turn up on the day. It's embedded in there somewhere but you have to forget it all and play the scene because we are storytelling.

  Jenna Coleman

  Play, Joy, Looks

  "The Time Traveling Actor". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 28, 2015.

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• I think you have to be true to the script that you're given.

  Jenna Coleman

  Thinking, Given, Being True

  "The Time Traveling Actor". Interview with Haley Weiss, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 28, 2015.

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• I read the script [ of 'Steve Jobs' movie ], and it was very, very good. I wasn't sure they would want me to be in the movie, but I auditioned for it. Which I hadn't done in a few years. But I had auditioned in the previous few years for another movie that I did not get the part. And so my track record wasn't good. But I really wanted to audition because I was worried that I was going to blow it, and I wanted it to be on them for choosing me.

  Seth Rogen

  Jobs, Blow, Years

  Source: variety.com

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• When I'm writing a script, before I can write dialogue or anything, I have two or three hundred pages of notes, which takes me a year. So, it's not like "what happens next." I've got things that I'm thinking about but I don't settle on them. And if I try to write dialogue before then, I can't. It's just garbage.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Writing, Thinking, Years

  "Exploring Things: Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson On 'Anomalisa'". Interview with Brian Tallerico, www.rogerebert.com. December 29, 2015.

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• The technology certainly changes. I think, in terms of making films, that's been the biggest change. But many things stay the same. I mean, there's still stories to be told. There are scripts that give you a good guide and insight into the film.

  Howard Shore

  Mean, Technology, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• If the producer doesn't like you, consequently he reads the script with a very negative view. But I wouldn't preoccupy myself with that, I don't give a damn. You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and whatall.

  Rod Serling

  Damn You, Dwarves, Views

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• I remember the first sale I made was a hundred and fifty dollars for a radio script, and, as poor as I was, I didn't cash the check for three months. I kept showing it to people.

  Rod Serling

  People, Cash, Fifty

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• I would guess that the price of the script really is secondary. The credit is much more the essence.

  Rod Serling

  Essence, Credit

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• Essentially, the scripts are not that different. Let's say, in literary terms, it's the difference between writing horizontally and writing vertically. In live television, you wrote much more vertically. You had to probe people because you didn't have money or sets or any of the physical dimensions that film will allow you. So you generally probed people a little bit more. Film writing is much more horizontal. You can insert anything you want: meadows, battlefields, the Taj Mahal, a cast of thousands. But essentially, writing a story is writing a story.

  Rod Serling

  Writing, Differences, People

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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• I think what's difficult is proving to people that a script actually does work and sometimes the laughter might not be on the page, it might be between the lines.

  Alice Lowe

  Laughter, Thinking, People

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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