Quotes About Script

You hit the wall almost right when you get up to the top. If there's a female writer being suggested to do a rewrite on a script, it's always the big boys going, "Mm, let's go with [a man]..."

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.

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.

I read the script [Havenhurst] and I went to bed, but I woke up because somebody had knocked on my door. Or at least it seemed like somebody knocked on my door at, like, 4 in the morning.

When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'

You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.

It's very difficult to kill somebody in a movie, unless it was an accident.

Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto.

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.

But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.

If you want guarantees in life, then you don't want life. You want rehearsals for a script that's already been written. Life by its nature cannot have guarantees, or its whole purpose is thwarted.

To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.

You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.

A staccato script of letters and digits beamed from an alternate world. Then they ceased communicating altogether. and began to liase in dreams and nightmares.

we are merely actors in a play written by someone else—more

Linguists had long known that Latin script—the everyday alphabet of today's Western world—evolved from Greek letters, which had themselves derived from Phoenician, as did Hebrew.6

Another reason for the spread of the script may simply have been the commercial vitality of the Aramaeans, who were to the deserts of the northern Levantine region what the Phoenicians were to the sea, trading particularly in copper, ivory, incense, and textiles of all descriptions. Whatever the reason, with each change of political dominance, from Assyrian to Babylonian, and from Babylonian to Persian, Aramaic only became more prominent.

Schmandt-Besserat contends that the first writing system—the familiar Sumerian cuneiform script—evolved in this way directly from the token system.13

The older pictographic theory still has some virtues. First proposed by William Warburton, an Anglican cleric who eventually became bishop of Gloucester and who wrote in the 1730s, it was, and probably remains, the most commonly accepted theory about the origins of writing.

But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.

You're a bigger star in a bigger movie. If you don't like the part, change the script.

When it comes to food, we are, in essence, following an eating script that has been written into the circuits of our brains.