Quotes About Script

If I am offered a character that demands me to go bald, I would definitely give it a thought. I love my hair, but if the script is that brilliant I would take up such roles.

My department is to get actors to do stuff.

The success of a film depends on the screenplay, and nothing else.

It so depends on each script, because you can say... I always thought I wouldn't have wanted to do something that was kind of like as big and commercial as 'The Dark is Rising,' but I really liked the script. I thought it was really clever.

In some instances, I would say the writer does deserve equal billing with the director. In other instances the director - especially if he wrote part of the script himself - is clearly more the author of the movie.

There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.

On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.

When I get a new script, I write a record of how many costume and make-up changes I have. I cross-check them against the shooting schedule and then consult with the hair and make-up designers.

I usually choose movies that I would want to see. I appreciate drama and if the right script came across my desk, drama you will see.

I definitely have to know every detail of a script and analyse its potential before I think further because if the director is the captain, then the script is the ship.

The script determines the costumes. At least that is how I like to work.

I really love being in a room and developing work.: being at the table, looking at the script for the first time, and putting a story on its feet.

I like a lot of good dialogue if it is well-acted.

Good dialogue is very important.

If people are going to watch TV, let's give them something coherent with actual dialogue.

A lot of the time, a comedy script is just dialogue, and that's the main thing you have to worry about.

It was always the same thing - no script, dialogue at the last minute. Everyone always thought we just said anything we wanted. It's difficult to explain - some actors want to know why they have to do this and that. It was so simple and natural with Godard.

If you see a bad live action film, what are the conclusions you draw? Typically, it is that they made a bunch of mistakes, a bad script, wrong casting. You get into 2D, and you get a few films that are not strong films. And what is the conclusion? That it's 2D? I beg to differ. It's a convenient excuse, but it's just wrong.

If you can play lots of different characters, that's fun. As long as the material is good, that's what the attraction is for me.

I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.

I am just an actor - all I do is I memorise someone else's words and tart around.

I don't just write a script, and then someone takes it away and builds a game. I am continually getting input in order to create a big suspension field to hold the gameplay together so that the gamers aren't doing arbitrary tasks, so that they are doing things that seem meaningful.

If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.

It's too bad about 'Dark of the Sun.' It was really about Tshombe. When I read the script, I thought it was going to be a political movie, and I thought we might even have a hassle. But the director simplified it to brutality and bad taste.