Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ewan McGregor

Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.

Kathy Bates

Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.

Hugo Weaving

If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it.

Juno Temple

I've been involved with some huge studio projects that have been bloody awesome. It all starts with a great script, doesn't it?

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.

Marguerite Moreau

I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.

Nicholas Jarecki

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

Naomi Watts

It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

Preity Zinta

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

Paul Feig

Katie Dippold, who I wrote the script with, she's very into ghosts and all that. So I go, "Hey, why don't you talk to Katie?"

Christina Ricci

A director should cast a person who fits into their script.

Morgan Freeman

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.

JoBeth Williams

I was concerned about doing a sequel and repeating myself. That was before I read the script.

Joanne Froggatt

You can have a great script, and it can be a great show, but for whatever reason, it just doesn't take the public's interest.

John C. Reilly

A script is like a theory of a movie.

Heather Matarazzo

I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick with it. You have to.

Helena Bonham Carter

I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts.

Orlando Bloom

You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.

Om Puri

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

Michael Caine

How can I change me to suit the script?

Michael Caine

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

Mel Tillis

But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.

Michael Arndt

My thing is that most scripts arent bad scripts, theyre just not finished yet.

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.

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.