Scripts Quotes - Page 38

• Trust me when you read the script for Bad Santa 2 I knew exactly what I was getting myself into. I read the script first, and I was laughing out loud and blushing and couldn't believe what I was reading.

  Christina Hendricks

  Believe, Reading, Laughing

  Source: screenrant.com

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• Me and a friend literally had the idea for Wedding Crashers and pitched it, and it was already a script. They go, "That's funny! You should call it The Wedding Crashers." It was almost exactly like that .

  Rich Fulcher

  Ideas, Wedding Crasher, Should

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The script is the musical score, and everyone has to play off that score. Even I have to interpret it. The producers are there to eliminate obstacles to that interpretation.

  Rebecca Miller

  Play, Musical, Obstacles

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script.

  Octavia Spencer

  Mean, Levels, Projects

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• I tend to look for a great script.

  Virginia Madsen

  Looks

  Source: www.iamrogue.com

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• I always pick what I consider to be good scripts.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Be Good, Picks

  Source: dailydead.com

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• I can easily say "no" to a project if the script isn't great, but when the script is good, then I start asking the other questions. Who's going to direct it? Who's the creator? Who are the actors? When are we shooting? Where is it shooting? All that kind of stuff.

  Dominic Monaghan

  Asking, Actors, Shooting

  Source: dailydead.com

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• I also really pay attention to whether the script embodies a full female character or if they're just wanting a two-dimensional objectified woman. So I also have that aspect to take care of as well.

  Karla Souza

  Character, Two, Female

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I told my friend - we were working on a movie together - and he gave me a script and asked me to give him notes. And they were all male characters, and I said, "You know what would make this character more interesting?" And he asked what - and it's this road trip between three guys, basically, one older man, one 30-year-old and a 13-year-old mechanic. And I said, "If you make the 13-year-old a girl, and you make her an Indian-American mechanic." And he said, "What do you mean?" And I said, "Yeah, don't change anything in the script about him, and just make it a her."

  Karla Souza

  Girl, Character, Mean

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this kid in the wheelchair, and then the quarterback comes along and has a heart of gold and takes him out of a Porta Potty. That's too often what I see in media, that the characters with disabilities are there to make other people seem like heroes for treating the character with a disability with respect. Those are the kinds of roles that are out there.

  Zach Anner

  Hero, Heart, School

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students I know are reading contemporary poets (they love Willie Perdomo) and scripts (No Child, by Nilaja Sun and Twilight by Anna Deavere Smith). I don't know their reading habits outside of our class, but I believe that they enjoy stories that they can relate to, learn from, be challenged by - you know, the usual good writing that every reader craves.

  Renee Watson

  Children, Believe, Reading

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• For me, my storyline [in Big Little Lies] is very complicated and nuanced. [The script] was so beautifully written. It was very, very easy to play. ... I think one of the scenes is almost eight minutes.

  Nicole Kidman

  Lying, Thinking, Eight

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• Sometimes as an actor you're struggling to make things work. That was never the case for me with [Big Little Lies script]. It just kind of flowed out.

  Nicole Kidman

  Lying, Struggle, Actors

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• Some scripts are pretty sparse.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I felt like the script [of "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"] was so clear. It was sort of packed full of information. [Macon Blair] puts in a lot of discussion in the script. Characters are introduced very thoughtfully. The way he described walking into particular environments was very specific.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Home, Character, World

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I think there's so many little specific things in the script [of "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"]. And the script was also structured so beautifully that I didn't want to mess with it.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Home, Thinking, World

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• There's a rhythm to script [ in "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"], as well, especially the pacing of it. But there definitely were times when I would say something and [ Macon Blair] would say, "I didn't think to deliver it like that" or, "I didn't think it had that meaning." And he'd say, "I like it. I think it's good." So he's open. He's not battering it into you.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Home, Thinking, World

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• ["I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ] really jumped off the page. And there were so many specific notes within the context of the script. Music cues, for instance.

  Elijah Wood

  Home, World, Pages

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• A lot of people have an opinion on scripts, but they aren't equipped to diagnose what the problems are. You realize that scriptwriting is such a specialist subject, but because it's so common, everyone thinks that they can talk about that. I think it's something that writers only know, that they can see.

  Daniel Kaluuya

  Thinking, People, Opinion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't think writing stops until the film is out. In the edit, it's another draft. [The script] is the food for set, and then the set is food for the edit, and the edit is food for the screen. It's constant, and this is just the first stage of it.

  Daniel Kaluuya

  Writing, Thinking, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The creation of a film starts with an idea, a notion of a time period or characters, and you get really excited about the idea, and sell it to others if you need their support to write the script. You can't wait to get started, and then you try to start, and you struggle with the blank page, and you get some ideas, and they're bad ideas, and you write bad stuff. It's really bad.

  Whit Stillman

  Struggle, Writing, Character

  Source: www.openlettersmonthly.com

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• As an actor, I've learned to become a detective. You have to figure out who that person is. If the character is a thief, you have to figure out what makes them a thief. Whatever the prevailing idiosyncrasy is, I have to find it in the script.

  Octavia Spencer

  Character, Thieves, Actors

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• When I'm working with another writer, I tend to make a lot of effort. When I collaborate with a writer, I'm not interested in credit, but I'm feeding him stuff all the time that I feel is important to shaping the script.

  Oliver Stone

  Effort, Important, Credit

  "Interview: Oliver & Sean Stone (Alexander Revisited)". Interview With Jeremy Smith, trouble.city. September 19, 2007.

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• Usually, the biggest hang-up is the script. You could have a script done in six months that you love, or it could be like The Fantastic Four it's been almost 10 years.

  Stan Lee

  Years, Months, Six

  Source: www.ign.com

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• Once you get the script, you then hope you can get the director that you want. Then you hope he can get the cast he wants. Again, you can go quickly or there can be a million stumbling blocks. There's just no way to know.

  Stan Lee

  Block, Directors, Want

  Source: www.ign.com

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