Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gregory Peck

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

Gena Rowlands

I read the script of [Woman Under the Influence ] 50 times. And I thought about it. And then I did it.

Gena Rowlands

Of course I would change anything if John Cassavetes said so - it's his script. But he was very easy about that.

Michael Jai White

I've sold scripts in the past, and also a TV pilot that didn't get made, to Fox. But yeah, I've been writing for a while.

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.

Erika Christensen

I have pictures from work that I'm sending to my family. I send them scripts that I'm working on so they can be excited and know what's up with me.

Ewan McGregor

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

Kirsten Dunst

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

Kenneth Williams

I can't stand innuendo. If I see one in a script I whip it out immediately.

Hugo Weaving

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

Jason Statham

I'm not fixed in any genre. I love all kinds of films. The essential thing is; you have to have good material. If you have the filmmaker, and the material, and the script is good, you can start from there.

Jack Nicholson

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

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

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.

George Lucas

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

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.

Hans Zimmer

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

John Landis

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

Julie London

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

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?"

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.

Kathy Bates

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

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.

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.