Scripts Quotes - Page 8

• I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to write scripts for television. I wrote for my comedy act. Then I wrote screenplays, and then I started writing New Yorker essays, and then I started writing plays. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the New Yorker essays, but they were comic. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. In my head, there was a link between everything. One thing led to another.

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Play, Long

  "Steve Martin: The Powells.com Interview". Interview with Jill Owens, www.powells.com. November 29, 2010.

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• If I'm writing a novel, I'll probably get up in the morning, do email, perhaps blog, deal with emergencies, and then be off novel-writing around 1.00pm and stop around 6.00pm. And I'll be writing in longhand, a safe distance from my computer. If I'm not writing a novel, there is no schedule, and scripts and introductions and whatnot can find themselves being written at any time and on anything.

  Neil Gaiman

  Morning, Distance, Writing

  "Interview with Neil Gaiman". Writers and Artists Interview, www.writersandartists.co.uk.

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• You always have to write script with a budget in mind. Although it's always good to write the big story, you really have to think about how things are going to work as far as cast, effects and settings. It's a process. You have to always think budget and then execute and make it happen.

  Harrison Smith

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

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• The script in many ways is limiting and novel is liberating. You get to go into the heads of your characters and their background and have fun with them; something you are discouraged from doing with a script. With the novel, I can tell you what the characters are thinking, I can tell you their view of the world, background information, things I wouldn't dare touch in the script.

  Juliet Asante

  Fun, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.premiumtimesng.com

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• I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Careers, World, Terrible

  "Revolutionary Road : Leonardo DiCaprio interview". Cinema.com Interview, cinema.com.

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• When you're in Hollywood and you're a comedian, everybody wants you to do other things. All right, you're a stand-up comedian, can you write us a script? That's not fair. That's like if I worked hard to become a cook, and I'm a really good cook, they'd say, "OK, you're a cook. Can you farm?"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Writing, Humor

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• I wrote a script, and I gave it to a guy who reads scripts, and he read it, and he liked it, but he said he thinks I ought to re-write it. I said, "Fuck that - I'll just make a copy!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Comedy Central Presents (Mitch Hedberg)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. January 5, 1999.

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• It took me three, four years, to get from my first film to my second film, banging on doors, trying to get people to give me a chance. Writing, struggling, with no money in the bank, working as an editor on the side. Working as a cameraman on the side. Getting little jobs, eking out a living. Trying to stay alive, and pushing a script that nobody wanted.

  George Lucas

  Jobs, Struggle, Writing

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I did them they were not conventional. The executives could only think in terms of what they'd already seen. It's hard for them to think in terms of what has never been done before.

  George Lucas

  Thinking, Different, Done

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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• I can picture certain things in my mind, while writing the script, but then I can also tell that everyone else might be a little confused about what it's supposed to look like at the end of the day. But it all works out. I find a way.

  Rob Zombie

  Confused, Writing, Work Out

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.

  Al Pacino

  Thinking, Play, Television

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• A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there's a movie. It's very evocative; it's like a first cut because you hear 'She walked to the door,' and you visualize all these things. 'She opens the door' . . . because you read the stage directions, too.

  Al Pacino

  Reading, Cutting, Doors

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

  Al Pacino

  Character, Responsibility, Relative

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• When I worked with Woody Allen, I only got the parts of the script that I was in. I was able to piece together the narrative from that, but I remember being quite excited to watch the movie - the movie that I was in but didn't know what happened in, like, 65 percent of.

  Chiwetel Ejiofor

  Together, Watches, Pieces

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I started out as an actor, but I forced myself to be a writer, even though I wasn't very good at it and had never written. I don't think I ever passed an English course in my life. My first eight to 10 scripts were pretty horrendous, but I stayed at it, stayed at it, and stayed at it, until I eventually found a voice and a subject like Rocky that people were interested in.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Thinking, Eight, Voice

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.

  Sydney Pollack

  Way, Prepared

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I never had the desire to be a professional Twitterer. Every now and then something dumb pops into my head and I'll tweet it. I don't feel any obligation to respond to everyone. Not that I don't appreciate people sending me messages on there, but there are too many. Responding to everyone would take away time for all the stuff I'm actually in the business for.

  Aziz Ansari

  People, Appreciate, Dumb

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. July 23, 2012.

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• Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.

  William H. Macy

  Joy, Shooting, Easy

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I get scripts all the time, but I read this [Baggage Claim] thoroughly, and I loved it. It was light hearted, cute, sweet, and funny. I told my agent that I liked the script, but I did let my acceptance of the role slide a little, until I was watching television one day; scrolling through the stations, and there was this play. And I don't like plays made for the screen. But, this one, "Suddenly Single", caught my attention.

  Jill Scott

  Cute, Sweet, Acceptance

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• What happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.

  Johnny Depp

  People, Flash, Happens

  "Brooding Johnny muses on his motley career and reinventing Ichabod Crane for Tim Burton's 'Sleepy Hollow'". Contactmusic Interview, www.contactmusic.com. January 2009.

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• I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and [Latino roles] were either nonexistent or written as the maid or a drug dealer. We're no longer just that. I'll play any part that challenges me. What's important is that all races have choices.

  Eva Mendes

  Reading, Race, Play

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing, for example. It's exactly the same in architecture. Architects also put together spatial episodes to make sequences.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Editing, Together, Example

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• I'm not ambitious when it comes to my acting career. I'm not breaking down my agency's doors or sending out headshots. Even when I'm offered work, I always want small parts. When it comes to things that other people have written, I just don't know what I'm doing. I'm terrible at memorizing a script and reading lines. I get confused and I don't understand and it just looks fake to me. It's more difficult for me to be creative that way.

  Amy Sedaris

  Confused, Reading, Agency

  "Amy Sedaris: The Believer Interview". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. March, 2004.

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• I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.

  Bailee Madison

  Email, Wake Up, Excited

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• He comes back with the script, and it's racist like a 1940's Newspaper.

  Katt Williams

  Funny, Humor, Racist

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