Scripts Quotes - Page 5

• Without being good enough, I started figuring out how to make my way through the minefield of a script, which is what it was to me at the time, and the rest is semi-history.

  Kurt Fuller

  Way, Good Enough, Be Good

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I always keep my options open. I always say, "Make me an offer and send me the script, and if it's something that I can connect to or relate to..." The character has to intrigue me, and the project overall has to intrigue me. And if it all lines up properly, then we can get into the business side of it. But it's always about the creative first.

  Corey Feldman

  Character, Creative, Firsts

  "Corey Feldman on child actors, his favorite roles, and the Goonies sequel". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. December 10, 2012.

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• All three parts of filmmaking [writing, shooting, editing] contribute to rhytm. You want the script to be a tight as possible, you want the acting to be as efficient as possible on the set, and you have enough coverage to manipulate the rhythm in the editing room, and then in the editing room you want to find the quickest possible version, even if it's a leisurely paced film. I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

  Alexander Payne

  Mean, Writing, Editing

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• No one is really a method actor, everyone has their way of going about it, preparing for it, but method is preparation, it's what you do to prepare. So my method is to read the script. Some actors' method is to read the script a hundred times and in the doing of it, to immerse themselves in as much of the reality as possible. Me, I believe strictly in acting. If I am out of breath, I'm out of breath. I ain't running nowhere.

  Morgan Freeman

  Running, Believe, Reality

  "Morgan Freeman - part two". The Gardian Interview at the BFI, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2000.

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• [Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.

  Rob Zombie

  Writing, Mainstream, Stills

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I'd love to continue to produce movies. My number one passion is acting, but I also think there's something so special in being able to support a script and an idea, and take it all the way through to fruition. I think that process is so rewarding.

  Roberto Aguire

  Passion, Thinking, Ideas

  "Interview: Roberto Aguire Talks Boulevard (Exclusive)". Interview with Karen Benardello, www.shockya.com. August 4, 2015.

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• If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the way I work, definitely not necessarily the best way.

  Rian Johnson

  Notebook, Writing, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• It's much harder to write a script that involves two people in a single location than 20 people in 30 different locations.

  Michael Haneke

  Writing, Two, People

  "Michael Haneke Talks AMOUR, His Inspiration for the Film, His Casting Decisions, Physical and Emotional Demands of the Film and Shooting the Film in French". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 14, 2012.

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• Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in the edit, it can be something else.

  Idris Elba

  Actors, Used, Performances

  "Idris Elba Talks PROMETHEUS, PACIFIC RIM, THOR 2, LUTHER Season 3, Preparing to Play Nelson Mandela and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2012.

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• The hardest work that actors have done, including myself, is on poorly written scripts. And when you first start out you do anything. I did a lot of crap. I did more crap than I can tell you. But you did it because you needed the money. You have to pay for your pictures and resumes, and classes and insurance and food like everybody else. In those days if it was crap you just didn't put it on your resume.

  Bryan Cranston

  Class, Actors, Done

  "Bryan Cranston Talks Cohaagen, the End of BREAKING BAD, Turning Down X-MEN: FIRST CLASS & More on the Set of TOTAL RECALL". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Normally when I'm sent a script I'll read it through to see how it hangs as a story and then I'll go back and read it through again and look at the character.

  Colm Meaney

  Character, Looks, Stories

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• I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.

  Dougray Scott

  Maps, Wonderful, Film

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

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• Don't send me your script if you want me to play the black best friend; I just won't do that.

  David Oyelowo

  Play, Black, Want

  "David Oyelowo On Acting, His Royal Roots And The One Role He Won't Take". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 28, 2015.

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• Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be careful of slipping into ""psycho-speak," however. Kids pick up instantly your attempt at being a pseudo-shrink. Most resent it and are apt to tune out anything that sounds like you're reading a script from the latest child-psychology text.

  Marge M. Kennedy

  Children, Reading, Kids

  Marge M. Kennedy (1994). “The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. Its important to alternate between the two activities.

  Toni Servillo

  Character, Two, Giving

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• I really choose by what I like, i thought 'Alexander' was a super smart script. Just [costar] Steve [Carell] alone would have been enough. Gosh, I love working with that guy. He's just the best.

  Jennifer Garner

  Love, Smart, Guy

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• I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.

  Evan Daugherty

  Couple, Party, Writing

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• Most scripts that get written in Hollywood dont go anywhere.

  Evan Daugherty

  Hollywood, Written

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• The truth is, there are probably eight more Snow White scripts floating around out there. And once one Snow White script got hot, other people started pulling out their Snow White scripts.

  Evan Daugherty

  Eight, White, People

  "Screenwriter Evan Daugherty Talks SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN, the Film's Action-Adventure Style, and His TV Show AFTER THOUGHT". Interview with Scott Wampler, collider.com. November 11, 2011.

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• A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

  Jon Hurwitz

  Comedy, Originals

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• What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

  Om Puri

  Bollywood, Film, Copies

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• I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

  Nicholas Jarecki

  Plenty, Written

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

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• On Stranger Than Fiction, the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page.

  Marc Forster

  Writing, Fiction, Lines

  "Bond Week Interview: Quantum of Solace Director Marc Forster". Interview with Alex Billington, www.firstshowing.net. November 11, 2008.

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• I don't ever like to feel myself in the position to demand of an actor that they trust I'm going to do something worthwhile. I feel a responsibility to articulate what it is I'm going to do. Whether that's showing them a full script or sitting down with them and describing my ideas in detail. It's a very healthy burden on me as a film director to be able to articulate what I want to do, to inspire actors, rather than just saying, take it on trust I'll be able to do something worthwhile.

  Christopher Nolan

  Responsibility, Ideas, Inspire

  Source: deadline.com

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• Once rehearsals are done the writer really doesn't have a function on the set. If the script is stabilized, then the writer becomes a celebrity tourist visiting the set, trying not to get in the way. It's very good for the ego, to go visit a film set if you are the writer, because they give you a special chair, and tell you where you can sit to watch the monitor. They make you feel special, but at the same time, they make it perfectly plain that you are irrelevant!

  Tom Stoppard

  Giving, Ego, Special

  Source: deadline.com

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