Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Helena Bonham Carter

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

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.

Steve McFadden

EastEnders' keeps me so busy - that is where I'm at and I can't see that changing too soon. There's nothing that has quite got the punch of an 'EastEnders' 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?'

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.

Liam Neeson

I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.

Simon Pegg

Films that rely on their cast to be funny are often episodic and feel like a series of loosely connected sketches rather than a satisfyingly structured script.

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.

Ralph Fiennes

I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a 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.

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.

Robert Culp

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

Ridley Scott

Once you crack the script, everything else follows.

Sydney Pollack

When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.

Sydney Pollack

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

Richard E. Grant

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

Rian Johnson

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

Lauren Conrad

I can't even read a script. I've tried and it's painful to watch.

Julie London

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

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

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.

Steven Spielberg

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