Quotes by Scripts The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny. Hugh Grant mean-girls scripts romantic If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it. Hugo Weaving appeals scripts ifs I always want to read the script before I totally commit. Ice Cube commit scripts want The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another. Imelda Staunton potters scripts way Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in the edit, it can be something else. Idris Elba scripts used actors I have thus decided to make a certain film and now begins the complicated and difficult-to-master work. To transfer rhythms, moods, atmosphere, tensions, sequences, tones and scents into words and sentences in a readable or at least understandable script. This is difficult but not impossible. Ingmar Bergman scent atmosphere scripts The action star's life is very short. Back in Asia, I can do whatever I want to do. I'm the producer, I'm the director, I can do so many things, but in Hollywood any time I present a script they say: "No, no, no, Rush Hour 3, Rush Hour 4." Jackie Chan asia scripts stars Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them. Jack Nicholson scripts might way When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!' Jackie Chan scripts want writing I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense. Jack Nicholson scripts film actors I reject the word 'script' entirely-at any rate in the usual sense. I prefer the old usage-usually scenario-which it had in the Commedia dell'Arte, meaning an outline or scheme: it implies a dynamism, a number of ideas and principles from which one can set out to find the best possible approach to filming. Jacques Rivette scripts numbers ideas 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. Jaimie Alexander mold scripts preparation When you are shooting with a robot you can't improvise. You can't really... the script is kind of the script. Jake Schreier robots shooting scripts It's one of the most beautiful scripts [Brokeback Mountain] I've ever read, and it was Ang Lee, and at the time Heath [Ledger] was a friend of mine - before we even shot the movie - and always sort of alluring to me. Jake Gyllenhaal brokeback-mountain scripts beautiful I don't look at scripts. I just write them. James Cameron scripts writing looks Once you read the script, it's the only way it can be. James L. Brooks scripts way 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. James Monroe Iglehart scripts nuts play Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you. James Wolk scripts scene television What's been exciting for me is to read the scripts. James Wolk scripts exciting Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make. James Salter scripts want people «1011121314151617181920»