Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John Landis

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

George Lucas

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

Malcolm McDowell

There are no great scripts - just great films.

Gavin Hood

One reads many scripts, and some of them are good and some of them are not, but every now and then, one really grabs you. You simply can't put it down.

Julie London

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

Hans Zimmer

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

Meg Ryan

I'm a sucker for a funny script. And then, as soon as I don't wanna be, one comes along and grabs me.

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.

Richard E. Grant

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

Robert Schwentke

I'm not looking for artistic license with the script. I tend to arrive at a form with the script and feel that that should be for the time being what we aim for.

Sanjay Dutt

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

Rian Johnson

With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.

Robert Culp

There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

Samuel Fuller

A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.

Samuel Goldwyn

When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.

Ryan Phillippe

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

Ryan Reynolds

I don't get a lot of romantic comedy scripts.

Tim Burton

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

Viggo Mortensen

It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.

Viggo Mortensen

I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.

Victoria Pratt

It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

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.