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Quotes About Scripted

We'd like to prearrange our life on all levels. We'd prefer it to be scripted. But it's not.
~ William Hurt
People with autism are extremely good at working... in a scripted environment, because that's how they live their lives a lot of the time.
~ Brigette Lundy-Paine
I want to create and write scripted and unscripted shows, digital shows, stage shows.
~ Amanda Seales
Reality in America is heavily scripted, very edited, and they have a say in what goes on TV and what doesn't.
~ Rylan Clark-Neal
When I did 'Scrubs', we were able to always do one as scripted, and then we got to play a little bit and do some stuff. I thought that was pretty loose, but then coming on 'Happy Endings,' it's even looser.
~ Eliza Coupe
I'd known that the visit would be highly scripted and that genuine interactions with citizens wouldn't be possible, since it's illegal for them to speak with foreigners. Still, I'd thought I'd had a unique look at North Korea, only to discover I was wrong.
~ Adam Johnson
When I go in to 'Comedy Bang Bang,' I'll go in most of the time with some beats of where we're going with the idea. Everything else is improvised. Nothing is scripted. A lot of times I'll go in there with nothing and it's just conversation with the character.
~ Paul F. Tompkins
The moment Sr journalist who live interviewed P Bhosan said he can not be bought by millions and billions of money, his body language and tone indicated that he has already been purchased and this interview is scripted only to further misguide people and make them believe that there is Covid
~ Prafull Sakulani
I had started to desire power, because what I now realised was that other people had had it all along, that what I called fate was merely the reverberation of their will, a tale scripted not by some universal storyteller but by people who would elude justice for as long as their actions were met with resignation rather than outrage.
~ Rachel Cusk
it felt like he was acting a part in a play: other people spoke their lines and he spoke his, and everything that happened and everywhere he went felt unreal somehow, like scripted events unfolding on a stage set
~ Rachel Cusk
A true Master Player plays as thought the game is already in the past, according to a script whose every detail is known prior to the play itself.
~ James P Carse
Where the finite player plays for immortality, the infinite player plays as a mortal. In infinite play one chooses to be mortal inasmuch as one always plays dramatically, that is, toward the open, toward the horizon, toward surprise, where nothing can be scripted. It is a kind of play that requires complete vulnerability. To the degree that one is protected against the future, one has established a boundary and no longer plays with but against others.
~ James P Carse
What I find frustrating about scripted television is that it's rare that you are surprised by how you feel about the character, or how you feel about the show.
~ Mike White
So many reality shows are scripted and create this fake drama, and it's a bunch of bull. We wanted to do something real and something wholesome and something that's focused on positive family values.
~ Bill Rancic
In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.
~ Harry Shearer
I don't watch sitcoms. I really don't. My problem with them is they take so long to film them that there's no spontaneity. I want to see that.
~ Carol Burnett
The reality television shows are a big hit with the masses with their Bollywood songs. Even if these TV shows are scripted, people are watching them.
~ Atif Aslam
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
~ Barbara Walters
As cool as Jack Swagger was, he felt choreographed.
~ Jake Hager
If I have one criticism of the other late-night shows, it's that they're almost entirely scripted.
~ Jimmy Kimmel
The Common Curriculum can easily become the karaoke curriculum, where everyone just follows the bouncing ball of the script.
~ Andy Hargreaves
I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world.
~ Ted Sarandos
I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.
~ Patrice Leconte
'SVU' is one of my favorite shows. When I got the call to appear and play myself, I jumped at the chance. Obviously, I went over my lines, but playing yourself is a really great way to get your feet wet in the acting field. I enjoyed being on set and learning as much as I could about the scripted world.
~ Taylor Hicks