Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Louis Trintignant

It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not.

Famke Janssen

Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasnt in the script. It was something that I came up with.

Chris O'Dowd

I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do.

Chris Pine

I find it really hard to even read another script while shooting.

Jennifer Garner

You stick to the script, the script is Bible.

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.

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.

Jack Nicholson

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

Cary Fukunaga

My manager sent me the first two scripts for 'True Detective,' and I just thought they were so interesting and that the world they were depicting was so titillating to me.

Bette Davis

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

Erika Christensen

I have pictures from work that I'm sending to my family. I send them scripts that I'm working on so they can be excited and know what's up with me.

Christina Ricci

A director should cast a person who fits into their script.

Greta Scacchi

Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all.

Jennifer Coolidge

I read a script and I know immediately whether that role is for me or not.

Gregory Peck

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

Hugo Weaving

If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it.

David Hewson

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

Bill Hader

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

Ving Rhames

A lot of times, scripts are written so the character is all one way. Even with 'Bringing Out the Dead,' the character was written a little more generic.

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.

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

Colin Baker

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

Bryan Batt

I watch the TV or learn scripts while on the elliptical - need to get back on it!