Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nina Jacobson

Suzanne [Collins] was very involved in the development of the script. She wrote the first draft. She was very involved with Billy Ray, when he wrote his draft.

Nicolas Cage

If I do do a sequel, I'm going to have to know for sure that the script is better than the original. So I'm going to be very careful about that because I'm not eager to repeat myself.

Ravi Zacharias

If God is the author of life, there must be a script.

Michael Caine

How can I change me to suit the script?

Michael Caine

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

Mel Tillis

But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.

Michael Arndt

My thing is that most scripts arent bad scripts, theyre just not finished yet.

Melissa McBride

If theres something really, really bothering me about a script, then Ill say something, but otherwise I find my answers in the script.

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.

Colin Baker

I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.

Jack Nicholson

I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

Gena Rowlands

I read the script of [Woman Under the Influence ] 50 times. And I thought about it. And then I did it.

Gena Rowlands

Of course I would change anything if John Cassavetes said so - it's his script. But he was very easy about that.

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

Dan Castellaneta

If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.

Michael Jai White

I've sold scripts in the past, and also a TV pilot that didn't get made, to Fox. But yeah, I've been writing for a while.

Jason Statham

I'm not fixed in any genre. I love all kinds of films. The essential thing is; you have to have good material. If you have the filmmaker, and the material, and the script is good, you can start from there.

Nicholas Jarecki

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.

John Noble

I don't know how I absorb things, but I do. I just absorb them. I don't over read the script, and I don't really ever spend much time learning 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Emmy Rossum

When I read the scripts, I'm always so excited to see what's going to happen because it's unpredictable.