Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Denzel Washington

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

Lauren Miller

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

Al Pacino

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

David Puttnam

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

Chloe Grace Moretz

My mum reads every script before I go for it.

Berenice Bejo

Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest

Bill Murray

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

I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.

Jack Nicholson

I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

John Noble

I don't know how I absorb things, but I do. I just absorb them. I don't over read the script, and I don't really ever spend much time learning it.

Melissa McBride

If theres something really, really bothering me about a script, then Ill say something, but otherwise I find my answers in the script.

Ravi Zacharias

If God is the author of life, there must be a script.

Emmy Rossum

When I read the scripts, I'm always so excited to see what's going to happen because it's unpredictable.

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.

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.

Randall Park

As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.

Jesse L. Martin

On TV, you never know where it's going. They may even lie to you about where it's going. You never really know because the scripts come in every couple of weeks or so.

Maisie Williams

For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.

Sally Phillips

TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'

Sela Ward

I would consider a half hour sitcom if the script was good.

Lee Majors

I learn the whole script before I show up

Shane West

When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me.

Tim Robbins

It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.

Steven Spielberg

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.

Sam Elliott

I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

Tony Gilroy

I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.

Stephen Daldry

I'm not really a director for hire. You read these scripts and go, 'This is a really great script, but Paul Greengrass would make this so much better than me.' I usually say, 'I know who would be good for this. It's not me.