Scripts Quotes - Page 10

I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing.

I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts.

It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.

You are the vibrational writers of the script of your life, and everyone else in the Universe is playing the part that you have assigned to them.

Would you believe, I am still offered scripts and projects all the time?

I read a ton of scripts. I read a lot of scripts, and you read one, and first of all, you felt like you read it in 14 minutes, because you're turning the pages so fast you can't wait to see what's going to happen.

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

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.

Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like a comic book but when you start making it, for some reason the film gets very serious.

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.

The hackers who hacked into Sony have leaked the upcoming script for the new James Bond movie. Some of the executives said the news left them shaken but not stirred.

I have a lot of trouble with scripts. I have a lot of trouble imagining things while I'm reading them.

Quite often, I'll be sent a script for a movie. And I find that I like it, so I say I'll do it. But then they rewrite it for me. They make it quirky. Odd. I find that rather annoying. I call it Walkenising.

I have a large personal collection of pictures. For every project, I choose images. Usually I don't do this until I've done an extensive script breakdown and distilled the text down to poetic form. I have to plant enough seeds so that there will be vibration.

Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.

Most of my movies are indies. The best scripts I can find are independent films. But I love big-budget movies, I love craft services!

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

Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.

If a script has that affect on me during a reading, then it is definitely a film I want to be part of.

A writer is a performer as well. A writer isn't the literary department. That gets tried on but nothing's a script unless a good writer goes away and does his thing alone.

I structure the scripts and work on them on films and work on scenes with writers and but I haven't written a script myself, I really respect what they do and I'm fortunate I get to work with people that I really enjoy working with and we all kind of spitball and work together on these things, but I haven't written a script yet.

When you read a script, you get a feeling from it.

What made me want to be on it was reading a really good script, and being compelled by and attracted to the characters. I really loved Maura Isles, who was very fascinating to me.