Scripts Quotes - Page 30

Howard Minsky had gotten the script to her agent prior to my involvement.

I love travelling, and most scripts have been written while I have been travelling.

Well, I mean, the original is certainly the jump-off, it certainly is what it is, you know, I grew up around that era so I watched all those shows. The basic concept is there, it's just a different movie. Totally different actors, different filmmakers, different script, but same concept.

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That's the way I always work.

The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.

I hate when I get a script and I can't see who the people are.

This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

If we were able to rewrite the script for the reputation of Christianity, I think we would put the emphasis on developing relationships with non-believers, serving them, loving them, and making them feel accepted, only then would we earn the right to share the gospel.

I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.

It so depends on each script, because you can say... I always thought I wouldn't have wanted to do something that was kind of like as big and commercial as 'The Dark is Rising,' but I really liked the script. I thought it was really clever.

For the most part I pick movies based on the merit of the script, and the merit of the script only.

There are a lot of scripts that you can like, but rarely are there directors attached when you're in development with something and that's stressful.

Every time I get a script in my inbox, it's like a little Christmas present. It's so exciting to see what they've cooked up.

Usually you read a script and you know somebody who knows somebody who maybe knew that person or met them once.

I decided to write [Collateral Beauty] on my own which made it the first spec script I wrote in 11 years.

I wrote [Collateral Beauty] on my own. I didn't get paid to write it. I didn't sell it as a pitch. It was an idea I had that I really, really felt needed to be in script form before showing it to anyone in the industry because of the uniqueness of the idea, and the weirdness of the idea, to be frank.

But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect

To be able to make a living, I went into television. Not necessarily planned from the beginning, since I was more familiar with features, and had developed a few scripts.

I can never say a line someone else has given me, which is why script meetings on TV shows always go terribly for me.

When you start a script you aim to hit a note you know you want to end in general.

I didn't read the script [ Rules Don't Apply ] for a couple years. It basically amounted to this kind of apprenticeship with Warren [Beatty]: conversations and learning about his whole background in the film industry and his life.

There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.

I've always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it! Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I'd just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.

A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.

The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.