Quotes by category:Scripts

I read the script just once, and then forget it.I just deal with what I see every day on the screen and whetherI believe it and understand it.

Thelma Schoonmaker

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You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.

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You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.

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People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're sketch comedy guys.

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

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I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face. by Tim Burton

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

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I had never really done something that was more of a horror film, and its funny, because those are the kind of movies that I like probably more than any other genre. The script had images in it that I liked.

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I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.

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It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.

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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.

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Often jobs are un-turndownable even before you read the script. Y... by Toby Jones

Often jobs are un-turndownable even before you read the script. You go, "Well, I have to do that."

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In the end, whether I write the script or, in this case, somebody else did, there's a point where you let it go when you're making a movie. You just have to. The thing that you shoot is not what you imagined in your head - it never is exactly that. And it shouldn't be.

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I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me

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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.

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I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and... by Tom Baker

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?

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I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me... by Tom Berenger

I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon

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I never read the scripts at all carefully and never wanted to know what was going on, because i felt that being a benevolent alien, that's the way it should be.

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I structure the scripts and work on them on films and work on scenes with writers and but I haven't written a script myself, I really respect what they do and I'm fortunate I get to work with people that I really enjoy working with and we all kind of spitball and work together on these things, but I haven't written a script yet.

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Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

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A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an... by Tom Kenny

A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard.

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