Scripts Quotes - Page 6

• When I am writing I don't set a certain number of pages. I do know that the further into a script I get the faster it goes. As soon as you start making decisions you start cutting off all of the other possibilities of things that could happen. So with every decision that you make you are removing a whole bunch of other possibilities of where that story can go or what that character can do. So when I get maybe 2/3's of the way through I can see very clearly where it is going to go.

  Steven Zaillian

  Writing, Character, Cutting

  Source: collider.com

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• Seeing a film at the cinema, or a DVD or whatever at home, your brain is really receptive to not only whether the script's working, or if the actors are acting well, but also the colours.

  Crispian Mills

  Home, Dvds, Brain

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• Some actors might just do one thing, and another actor does another thing. I do an awful lot of preparation with the script, really. What I do is repeat the script, over and over and over again. Through that, it's almost like it seeps into my enamel. I'm reading all the characters, as well as my own. That is where the bulk of my preparation goes into.

  Michael Fassbender

  Reading, Character, Preparation

  "Michael Fassbender Talks Haywire, Twelve Years a Slave, Prometheus, and X-men: First Class Sequel". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 17, 2012.

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• I structure the scripts and work on them on films and work on scenes with writers and but I haven't written a script myself, I really respect what they do and I'm fortunate I get to work with people that I really enjoy working with and we all kind of spitball and work together on these things, but I haven't written a script yet.

  Tom Cruise

  People, Together, Kind

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• I usually read a script from an audience perspective first, and then look more closely at the character only.

  Colm Meaney

  Character, Perspective, Looks

  Source: collider.com

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• When you write the script, you're home in a room by yourself, and you're writing, and there's no connection with the real performing world. So you get a lot of things wrong and make a lot of mistakes and make a lot of bad choices.

  Woody Allen

  Real, Mistake, Home

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• I have pictures from work that I'm sending to my family. I send them scripts that I'm working on so they can be excited and know what's up with me.

  Erika Christensen

  Excited, My Family, Knows

  Interview with Renisha Marie, entertainment.renishamarie.org.

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• A writer/director is a tough thing to gauge when someone hasn't directed a movie before. You just don't know. Sometimes it will be a great script that's written beautifully, and then the director who has also written it does not have the facility to translate it.

  Richard Ayoade

  Directors, Doe, Gauges

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• American television is very much created by the writers, just the volume of it. The writers are so key. You're just trying to do something that serves that script. And in general, film isn't all about the script, really.

  Richard Ayoade

  Keys, Trying, Television

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• I only ever privately tell people stuff for the scene. And I often ask what they feel is right. Normally, by the time that we're filming, if it doesn't work, it always the script.

  Richard Ayoade

  People, Stuff, Scene

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• The only way I'd want to do something in television would be if it was about how I think as a comedian. I'd need to be able to be a creator. That's what I enjoy - I enjoy coming up with comedy, so it'd be very difficult for me to be sitting in a room and have somebody come in and say, "Here's your script! Learn these lines!" That's not fun. At least not for me.

  Brian Regan

  Fun, Thinking, Comedian

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• I wanna do a movie! Anything that I connect with, really. I read scripts, I've taken some acting lessons, and I feel like that's definitely my next goal.

  Avril Lavigne

  Taken, Goal, Acting

  "Skulls, Plaid, and Glitter, Oh My! Avril Lavigne's Collection for Sally Hansen Is Rock & Roll Chic". Interview with Lindy Segal, www.glamour.com. March 27, 2012.

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• Directing, to me, starts even before we get to the set. Directing is a fluid, an abstract thing. It's not done only purely in the moment. It's an idea that you plant before. It's a location that you show. It's something I whisper in someone's ear. It's a freeform thing. It only takes me a week to write the script, but it's years that you're thinking about it. The execution is really the fast part.

  Harmony Korine

  Writing, Thinking, Years

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• I'm always looking for something very different from anything I've done. I'm attracted to a great script, and not necessarily a great character.

  Elijah Wood

  Character, Different, Done

  Source: collider.com

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• You can't ever let yourself be thrown by a camera. That's never good for an actor. When you're reading the script, you want to work with someone you trust so there's nothing to worry about.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Reading, Worry, Cameras

  "‘Hunger Games’ Star Jennifer Lawrence Talks Playing Katniss Everdeen". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. March 12, 2012.

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• It's fun when the writers start writing jokes to you, but also it's fun when the writers will come to you and say 'Hey, listen, we're working on this story and we need to know if you speak any foreign languages.' And I said 'No, I don't. I speak a little Spanish, but I can learn a foreign language.' And they go 'Okay, do you think you can learn Portuguese?' And I go 'Yeah, whatever it takes. If it's funny, I'll do it.' So of course I start looking online and learning Portuguese, and as it turns out, I get the script and it's now Serbian.

  David Alan Basche

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

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• At times doc filmmaking feels more rewarding creatively. Because you are creating something out of pure cinema - instead of narrative cinema, where you've got a script and a cast and you build from your foundation, whereas in documentary, you're building out of chaos.

  George Hickenlooper

  Creating, Documentaries, Foundation

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• In some ways, many of the skills you have as a producer on independent films also apply to making big tentpole films: You surround yourself with a brilliant director, great script and talented people in every department who are smarter than you.

  David Heyman

  Independent, Skills, People

  "Harry Potter Producer David Heyman Talks Deathly Hallows, Tentpoles, Gravity". Interview with Anthony D'Alessandro, www.indiewire.com. November 23, 2010.

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• To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.

  Shiloh Fernandez

  Writing, Ideas, Computer

  Source: collider.com

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• If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.

  Bill Murray

  Writing, Harder, Screenplays

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• Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job.

  Dermot Mulroney

  Jobs, Actors, Pages

  Source: collider.com

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• When you start a script you aim to hit a note you know you want to end in general.

  Alex Kurtzman

  Want, Ends, Notes

  "Exclusive Interview with Chris Pine and Alex Kurtzman about 'People Like Us'". Interview with Jason Roestel, www.axs.com. June 27, 2012.

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• When you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or book to script to film. If I play Frank Sinatra, there's gonna be things I do in a movie that Frank might not have done, but it's the personality that comes across.

  Alex Pettyfer

  Book, Character, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• Whether it's a lower or higher budget project, a TV show or a film, the words on the page are the same to me and I approach the work in the same way. My job is to lift the character from the page, whether it's a TV or film script.

  Michael Eklund

  Jobs, Character, Tv Shows

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• When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories.

  Jonathan Demme

  Stories, Pages

  "Jonathan Demme Talks NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 1, 2012.

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