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

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.

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?"

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.

Linus Roache

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

Ralph Fiennes

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

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.

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.

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.

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 Clooney

What I learned is that I should probably read a screenplay every once in a while before I said 'yes'. You could make bad film out of a good script, but you're never going to make a good film out of a bad script.

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.

JoBeth Williams

I was concerned about doing a sequel and repeating myself. That was before I read the script.

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.

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.

John Landis

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

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

Al Pacino

Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.