Scripts Quotes - Page 9

Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

Every film starts with the script.

When I read a script, I am already in the movie with my music, and I can dive into a world that I haven't seen before.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.

Films that rely on their cast to be funny are often episodic and feel like a series of loosely connected sketches rather than a satisfyingly structured script.

If I don't have a script I adore, I do one I like. If I don't have one I like, I do one that has an actor I like or that presents some technical challenge.

When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me.

I haven't heard anything about a reunion show for Sisters. But if the script was good I would do it.

I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.

And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

My closet is full of sad little scripts that didn't get made that have sad endings. It's very hard to get a movie made that has a sad ending.

Manuscripts don't burn.

If theres something really, really bothering me about a script, then Ill say something, but otherwise I find my answers in the script.

Doing a film, or being sent scripts to look at a certain character, it's very odd for me. I tend to take it very personally.

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.

If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore.

You have a lot more leeway to be contradictory playing a character than most of the scripts have in them. That's how all actors are. We have so many different sides of ourselves and we're so different, in meeting with different people. The audiences relate more to that and find that more believable.

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've stayed focused on the work so much that I haven't really noticed my life start to change except for I've gotten busier.

I do enjoy that folks [ Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin] really get into [ Aladdin ] because I enjoy getting it. I love it where you just get to go nuts. Ninety percent of what you hear, he wrote. There's ten percent that he let me play around with in the studio and actually put in the script if it was funny enough.

I'm probably one of the worst actors as far as preparation goes, because I actually don't prepare. I find it easier to read the script and whatever hits me in my stomach, like deep down, I just go with it. And the director kind of molds me whether to go right or left with it.

I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.

I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.