Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth Williams

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

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?"

Linus Roache

Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it.

Julie London

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

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.

John Donne

Of all the commentaries on the Scriptures, good examples are the best.

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.

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.

Hans Zimmer

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

Maisie Williams

It's very different when you're reading a script to when you're watching a movie for the first time.

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.

Casey Wilson

I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, 'Oh, okay, babe,' and I see it in scripts all the time.

David Puttnam

I've always sensed what a script should sound like - even before the movie's been made

David Duchovny

It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.

Audrey Tautou

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

Lauren Miller

I went to film school, worked as an assistant, and wrote several scripts that haven't gotten made.

David Hewson

Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.

David Boreanaz

I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is.

Nicole Holofcener

If the script is right, I'm not above doing a movie with broad appeal.

Arthur Hiller

Anyway, he and I worked on the script together, and I must say he was a joy to work with. Very enthusiastic.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be That Girl. I even wrote a spec script for it and sent it to Sam Denoff.

Bill Hader

I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.

George Cukor

The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.

Peter O'Toole

You know when you've found a part that you want to play. You know it because the part takes you over. It sits in the script waiting for you to play him.

Harland Williams

My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

Paul Hogan

I'm the only person who's ever opened the Oscars or done a spot on the Oscars without a script and having it on autocue.

Imogen Poots

It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects.

David Mamet

The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script.

David Mamet

Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.

Alan Arkin

I'm used to changing a lot of the dialogue. But if I feel like the script is working, I don't want to mess with it.

Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue.