Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bette Davis

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

Ben Cross

I read a lot of scripts, so I know by page 25 if I like it or not.

Edward Norton

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

Bruce Campbell

You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building.

Dick Wolf

If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.

David Hewson

Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

Bill Hader

I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.

Ving Rhames

A lot of times, scripts are written so the character is all one way. Even with 'Bringing Out the Dead,' the character was written a little more generic.

Casey Wilson

I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, 'Oh, okay, babe,' and I see it in scripts all the time.

Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.

Bryan Batt

I watch the TV or learn scripts while on the elliptical - need to get back on it!

David Mamet

The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.

David Mamet

Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.

Colin Baker

I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.

Imogen Poots

It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects.

Cary Fukunaga

My manager sent me the first two scripts for 'True Detective,' and I just thought they were so interesting and that the world they were depicting was so titillating to me.

Liam Hemsworth

I read as many scripts as I can and just find stuff that I think is interesting, find stories that I think are worth telling.

Douglas Booth

You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.

Douglas Booth

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

Daniel Craig

Good scripts are hard to find.

Dan Gilroy

I had written a script called Freed, which I had wanted to direct.

Damian Lewis

It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.

Clive Anderson

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

Dan Castellaneta

If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.

David Yates

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

Amber Heard

For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only.

Amanda Schull

Usually you read a script and you know somebody who knows somebody who maybe knew that person or met them once.

Angelina Jolie

This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

Andrea Arnold

I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.

James Wolk

What's been exciting for me is to read the scripts.

Anurag Kashyap

I love travelling, and most scripts have been written while I have been travelling.

Bob Newhart

I don't have a stack of scripts.

David Twohy

After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.