Scripts Quotes - Page 25

My scripts are always filled with notes. I like to just analyze everything from the point of view of the whole picture, of the movie, my whole picture.

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.

I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don't know why. It's not something conscious or that I'm doing on purpose.

In France now, there's no problem with official censorship. Once your movie is finished, you always are R-rated. My movie is just R-rated in France. But when you meet French producers with a script like mine, they behave like the most fragile chickens in the world. They just tell you "Oh, no. You should cut this. You should cut that." And at the end you have been totally censored on the synopsis, and then on the script.

Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.

I've been in situations where I've been sent scripts to direct, and I always end up becoming very controlling and wanting to rewrite it to fit what I think it should say, and it just usually doesn't work.

If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment.

I like it when actors depart from the script to find their characters.

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

I don't think about better. You just want it to work. You want it to work and you have your guide with the script. You want it to exist and complete.

Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.

I'm sent a script. I read the script. If I love it, I want to do it. And that's it I don't care who's in it, how much money is behind it, really to an extent who's directing it.

Most scripts that get written in Hollywood dont go anywhere.

I read a lot of scripts. I believe you've got to read one that you know you're not going to do, because you've got to educate yourself on what's out there to make the best decision for you.

I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.

I don't like things to be overcharged, because otherwise everyone starts getting nervous. I try to be very well organized. When I write the script, everything is already in there, like the decoupage.

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.

Well, I love TV, and I love a good script.

When I read the script for Will & Grace in 1998, I knew I was the only guy for the part.

I don't consciously seek out Australian projects. I put them on the same table as all the other scripts and I wouldn't ever do a film just because it's been shot at home.

I tend not to read the size of the production into a script when I'm reading it. It's just something you respond to or not and I do think it's very dangerous to say it's time now to do this or it's time now to do that.

When I read the scripts, I'm always so excited to see what's going to happen because it's unpredictable.

I've never read a script that I've loved equally and differently to the book.

I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.

I think, because I've been working for a while, I've been working since I was ten, I had the fortune of reading a lot, a lot of scripts.