Scripts Quotes - Page 2

I read the script just once, and then forget it.I just deal with what I see every day on the screen and whetherI believe it and understand it.

'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.

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.

That's the thing about prep, is that it's a joy to have it there and you can spend all this time prepping, but ultimately you have to look at your script and turn up on the day. It's embedded in there somewhere but you have to forget it all and play the scene because we are storytelling.

I'm basically a writer, it's who I am. I direct and I like theatre directing very much. But I've done 17 movies, they don't say 'Let's get Garry, he'll make a helicopter shot,' they say 'Get Garry, he'll fix the script.'

I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.

What is your Primary Aim? Where is the script to make your dreams come true?

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

I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.

There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.

The script is a bible and it's this unchangeable document that somebody spent years and years on.

I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.

The most important thing is the script.

Life is like a B-picture script.

A lot of my time is spent watching films and reading scripts. And it can be all-consuming. And it's obviously something I'm fortunate that is both my work and my hobby. It's what I would naturally be doing anyway.

The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.

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

When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.

I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, "There's no masturbation in the DC Universe." To which my reaction was, "Well, that explains a lot about the DC Universe."

I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts.

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

From Ennio [Morricone] I ask for themes that clothe my characters easily. He's never read a script of mine to compose the music, because many times he's composed the music before the script is ever written.

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.