Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John Travolta

Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.

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.

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.

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.

Linus Roache

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

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.

John Landis

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

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.

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.

Sydney Pollack

When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.

Sydney Pollack

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

Viggo Mortensen

It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.

Viggo Mortensen

I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.

Victoria Pratt

It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

Richard E. Grant

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

Sam Elliott

I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

Sally Phillips

TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'

Tony Gilroy

I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.

Stephen Daldry

I'm not really a director for hire. You read these scripts and go, 'This is a really great script, but Paul Greengrass would make this so much better than me.' I usually say, 'I know who would be good for this. It's not me.

Steve McFadden

EastEnders' keeps me so busy - that is where I'm at and I can't see that changing too soon. There's nothing that has quite got the punch of an 'EastEnders' script.

Sigourney Weaver

It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.

Ralph Fiennes

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

Tim Burton

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

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.

Hans Zimmer

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

Steven Spielberg

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good 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.