Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rian Johnson

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

Ryan Phillippe

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

Zach Braff

I was originally casted to be in the Superman movie but I read the script and realized that it was mysteriously similar to my screenplay for Zach Braff the Movie.

William H. Macy

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.

William H. Macy

I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite.

Wolfgang Petersen

Every film starts with the script.

Maggie Carey

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

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.

Jon Hurwitz

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

Julie Gonzalo

I admire a lot of Spanish filmmakers and actors. I grew up watching a lot of Spanish films and novellas, and there's just so much talent out there.

Martin Freeman

There are still things technically about films that I think are a mystery to me and I want to remain a mystery. I don't particularly want to know what everyone's job is because I've got lines to learn.

Dana Brunetti

If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

James Tobin

I think the filmmakers and I were interested in telling stories that weren't well known,

Gael Bernal

I think that films are very transparent in that sense and they really portray the journey that that society is going through.

Todd Phillips

I think any filmmaker looks back and thinks, 'Boy, if we only had four hours more on that day when the sun was going down,' or, 'If we only spent more time and went back.'

Dawn Hudson

I think that's terrific that independent films are getting more and more mainstream press.

Lars Trier

I think technology right now is great, because it makes filming so easy, you know.

Jake Busey

I don't have a favorite role because there's been so many films that I've done that I've really enjoyed.