Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Travolta

Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.

John Shelby Spong

Some parts of the Bible are dreadful. In fact, my working title for The Sins of Scripture was "The Terrible Text of The Bible."

Jon Hurwitz

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

Nina Jacobson

Suzanne [Collins] was very involved in the development of the script. She wrote the first draft. She was very involved with Billy Ray, when he wrote his draft.

Nicolas Cage

If I do do a sequel, I'm going to have to know for sure that the script is better than the original. So I'm going to be very careful about that because I'm not eager to repeat myself.

N. T. Wright

Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

Max Lucado

Scripture often reminds us that it's not enough to have ears - we must use them.

Matthew Henry

The Scriptures were written, not to make us astronomers, but to make us saints.

Matthew Henry

They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.

John Owen

If Scripture has more than one meaning, it has no meaning at all.

John Owen

If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false.

John Donne

Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

John Calvin

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

John Calvin

The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.

John Calvin

The most accomplished in the Scripture are fools, unless they acknowledge that they have need of God for their schoolmaster all the days of their life.

George Clooney

What I learned is that I should probably read a screenplay every once in a while before I said 'yes'. You could make bad film out of a good script, but you're never going to make a good film out of a bad script.

Elisha Cuthbert

I love horror films, so I guess it's one of those things where I find myself interested in the script.

Linus Roache

Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it.

Lauren Conrad

I can't even read a script. I've tried and it's painful to watch.

John Landis

Universal rushed us. We started shooting without a script that was totally completed.

George Lucas

The script is what you`ve dreamed up-this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.

Malcolm McDowell

There are no great scripts - just great films.

Gavin Hood

One reads many scripts, and some of them are good and some of them are not, but every now and then, one really grabs you. You simply can't put it down.

Julie London

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

Hans Zimmer

Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.

John Dryden

And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.

Meg Ryan

I'm a sucker for a funny script. And then, as soon as I don't wanna be, one comes along and grabs me.

Jonathan Glazer

I've always been better at informing the audience through images than through words, but I took on a script that was so dialogue-intensive, that the words had to do all the informing.

Jonathan Demme

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.

Phillips Brooks

Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.

Mike Glenn

You don't read scripture, scripture reads you.

Richard E. Grant

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

Robert Schwentke

I'm not looking for artistic license with the script. I tend to arrive at a form with the script and feel that that should be for the time being what we aim for.