Scripts Quotes - Page 6

I don't want this big stardom thing. I just want a good script.

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write...

I was a big fan of Joe's film, Narc, so when you hear there's a script coming over from Joe Carnahan, you know it's going to be interesting because he has such a fresh voice.

If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.

As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.

No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.

My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books.

When you have a bunch of scripts that you have to read, the less you have, the better it is, because otherwise, everything is already planned and I think that's a terrible feeling.

I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.

You can have a million dollar, 20 million dollar budget or 60 million dollar budget, and if you don't have a good script, it doesn't mean a thing.

Scripts are what matter... if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don’t stand a shot.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

I felt, if I never did anything in my life but read scripts and synopsize them, I would be happy.

I was approached by the filmmakers. I didn't know much about the project ["Selling Isobel"], and the more we talked, the more they started to confide in me. I read the script and thought it was really interesting, and then a week later I discovered that this wasn't just any old script, this was actually Frida's [Farell] story and she was trusting me to tell it. I felt very privileged.

Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business.

Human consciousness is too obscure a mystery to itself for us to script our own lives.

I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!

[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.

I spend a lot of my time just developing material; or the company does. That material can come from a book, can come from a newspaper, can come from a discussion and sometimes it can come from a script that got passed over and is floating around.

I only ever privately tell people stuff for the scene. And I often ask what they feel is right. Normally, by the time that we're filming, if it doesn't work, it always the script.

It fills me with dismay sometimes when you look at the scripts that do come to you that are primarily focused on violence. There are so many other things to play around with.

I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.

Sometimes you read a script and it's like, "You'll improv and this is just a blueprint of what the scene could be," and that's never a good sign. And it's never encouraging as an actor to take that on, really.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.