Scripts Quotes - Page 37

• There were a couple of times, leading up to shooting [Ordinary World], where I was like, "Oh, my god, what did I get myself into? Hopefully, I don't ruin this guy's precious script." And then, after a couple of days of shooting, I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I've never done before, and I love making stuff.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Couple, Fun, Love Is

  Source: collider.com

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• We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing. We'd go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Together, Important, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• [Captain Fantastic] it's a great story. It's one of the better scripts I've read, ever, as far as being great from beginning to end. It handles a variety of characters. You have six children who all stand on their own, they're all individuals. And it touches on a very real issue, which is the lack of cohesion and communication in America right now.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Children, Real, Communication

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I'm sent a script. I read the script. If I love it, I want to do it. And that's it I don't care who's in it, how much money is behind it, really to an extent who's directing it.

  Ewan McGregor

  Care, Want, Behinds

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I did do a presentation pilot with Jesse Eisenberg and he's wonderful. He's such a great writer. He directed me and he wrote these wonderful scripts and we're waiting to hear if marketers and advertisers think that an audience wants to look at a bad mom and her 10-year-old son in a show.

  Parker Posey

  Mom, Son, Thinking

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I actually had that conversation with [Channel 4 Chief Creative Officer] Jay Hunt. We were at a bit of a crisis point. I'd written a totally different script - about war, basically - that got rejected at the last minute for various reasons. The whole of the series was in doubt. I said, "Well, there is one other idea ["National Anthem"]."

  Charlie Brooker

  War, Ideas, Creative

  "The Man Behind Netflix’s “Black Mirror” Is Maybe a Little Too Good at Predicting the Future". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2016.

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• I didn't read the script [ Rules Don't Apply ] for a couple years. It basically amounted to this kind of apprenticeship with Warren [Beatty]: conversations and learning about his whole background in the film industry and his life.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Couple, Years, Kind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We really wanted someone from the culture to sort of do that. And we heard about Taika [Waititi]. We saw his movie Boy, which that he had directed and written and which was great. We read another one of his scripts that was great. And we brought him in, showed him what we were doing. He really liked the idea.

  Ron Clements

  Boys, Ideas, Culture

  Source: www.slashfilm.com

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• I was very keen to work on the script with Scott Derrickson and [C. Robert] Cargill, and working out the important story beats, changing lines, upping the comedy, changing the pace, all of that was great fun.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Fun, Work Out, Important

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• The thing I always guard against when I'm talking to people I'm working with about a script is that there's a thing I don't like and it's called "talk story." It's when you're talking about the story; the characters are tasked with talking about the story instead of allowing the audience to experience the story.

  Harrison Ford

  Character, Talking, People

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• I came across the script [42], and I read it, and I said, "I really want to do this." And when I had my agent call, they said, ah, you know, it's not what they're looking for. So, OK. And then I let it go for a while, and then it just kept gnawing at me, so I kept pushing.

  Harrison Ford

  Let It Go, Pushing, Agents

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• I read the script [of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] and went, "I haven't read anything this good, in a long time." I thought it was absolutely brilliant. The dialogue is so sparkling, smart and witty. You also have these insane, crazy characters, like energy sucking vampires and holistic assassins. It's all completely weird.

  Samuel Barnett

  Witty, Crazy, Smart

  Source: collider.com

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• I'd been working on the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries material] for years, first, in the Independent newspaper columns and then in the various versions of the movie scripts.

  Helen Fielding

  Baby, Independent, Years

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• It's probably unprecedented for a filmmaker simply to take the writers' script and treat it as the instructions on the package. What really happens is you pretty much suppress your own instincts - and your own views on the matter - and write things the way filmmakers would like to have them, though the filmmakers often don't know what they want. They can only find out by reading what you do.

  Tom Stoppard

  Reading, Writing, Views

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• My scripts are possibly too talkative.

  Tom Stoppard

  Talkative

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Sometimes directors feel a script needs something, but they're not sure what it is, so they show it to a friend; if the friend is a writer, he ends up kicking around with that script for a while.

  Tom Stoppard

  Directors, Needs, Kicking

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• When you go on a movie set, there used to be one woman: script supervisor. Now they were in all capacities in addition to heading studios. So that's the biggest change of all from the early '50s, when I first started.

  Robert Vaughn

  Goes On, Firsts, Used

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I had to audition for Fandango. When I read the script, the role that was interesting - so everyone thought - was the role that Costner played. He was the cool guy. And I read the script, and my representation at the time said, "That's the role you should read for." And I was like, "Really? How about I read for this other role." And they went, "Well, you're not going to get that role."

  Judd Nelson

  Interesting, Guy, Roles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you read a script enough, especially a good script - I try to read it 40 to 50 times before you begin so you get a sense of the arc: what happens before, what happens after, what happens during.

  Judd Nelson

  Trying, Enough, Arcs

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• In a good script, it's really like a treasure map. You just focus on that, all the answers are pretty much in it.

  Judd Nelson

  Focus, Answers, Maps

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• I would go to trials a lot in Boston, as best I could. And it's incredible that, like, lawyers that had a good case weren't dramatic at all. Lawyers that had a horrible case would sing and dance and do whatever it took to convince the jury or the judge that this guy was innocent. So that was a cool thing to see because that made me believe that what the script [of From The Hip] was doing was totally believable. Now, maybe not ordinary. But it could happen.

  Judd Nelson

  Believe, Boston, Judging

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I read the script it was extraordinary and to work with Yorgos [Lanthimos] again was amazing.

  Colin Farrell

  Extraordinary

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I'll wait to see what the film [The Lobster] is, but it's set in a contemporary world, in America, there are hospitals and diners, parks, things that we will recognize and experienced ourselves but yet there's this similar kind of uneasiness through all the interactions and all the things that take place. It was unnerving reading the script. I kind of felt nauseous after reading it.

  Colin Farrell

  Reading, America, Waiting

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I think as actors we need to close read scripts and we need to fully understand the intricacies of dialogue as well as the symbolisms of what the actor wears and what they hold in their hand because that only adds more layers to the character.

  Masiela Lusha

  Character, Thinking, Hands

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it mutates again.

  Charlie Brooker

  Often Is, Directors, Boards

  Source: www.avclub.com

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