Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Pacino

Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.

Chloe Grace Moretz

My mum reads every script before I go for it.

David Puttnam

I've always sensed what a script should sound like - even before the movie's been made

Lauren Miller

I went to film school, worked as an assistant, and wrote several scripts that haven't gotten made.

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.

David Duchovny

It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.

Audrey Tautou

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

Denzel Washington

I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

Bill Murray

It's a lot of work to read a crummy script.

Ben Affleck

Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.

Brian Henson

We kind of lost a lot of that and puppeteers were sticking to the script and we thought everything needed to get a lot funnier, so we thought we would go to a good improv comedy instructor.

Dick Wolf

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

Bruce Campbell

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

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.

James Wolk

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

Ben Cross

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

Anurag Kashyap

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

Edward Norton

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

Dan Castellaneta

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

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.

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.

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.