Scripts Quotes - Page 13

I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.

Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.

Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.

I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and practically.

I tend to look for a great script.

My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.

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

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

I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.

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

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

Stand-up is really personal. It's not like somebody else is writing the script and you have to do what they write.

The script is a blueprint for the film - there are very few bad scripts that make good movies. If you really like the character and understand the utility it serves within the movie, that's a part of my process.

The script for 'In Good Company' was the first one I ever showed my dad.

It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

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

My scripts are possibly too talkative.

I can't remember what my first script was.

At Christmas, individuals are apportioned their roles in the family script - you're either the funny one or the sensitive one; or you either do the cooking or the washing up. And those roles aren't easy to change.

I have faith that a script is going to hit me like a ton of bricks, and when that happens, it's undeniable that I should choose the role.

I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?

In the end, whether I write the script or, in this case, somebody else did, there's a point where you let it go when you're making a movie. You just have to. The thing that you shoot is not what you imagined in your head - it never is exactly that. And it shouldn't be.

Often jobs are un-turndownable even before you read the script. You go, "Well, I have to do that."