Quotes About Script

Writing a comedy script is a difficult thing. I think if someone is attempting a comedy and then they fail then it's understood.

When a script like 'Hardflip' comes along, with a real depiction of the rewards of a father-son relationship but also the difficulties of building one, you have my attention.

There's no set rule, but when you look at the script, you start thinking about this person and how to create this human being on screen. You dig deeper into a script.

If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need the script. I could build the house, but I have to know how.

I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.

I would love to write a script where the main character is a woman. I know I can direct a film where the main character is a woman. I cannot write that film.

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.

Some actors don't even read the stage directions at all.

I've always felt that in a comedy script the stage directions should also have a comedic value.

I don't write tracking shots in my screenplays or any camera directions, but I do try to give a sense of how the action is moving.

A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.

I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.

For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.

A lot of directors understand everything but the story.

When I'm writing a first draft of a script, I can disappear into that for two, three months exclusively.

I would love to write a script, for sure. I write poetry and songs. But writing a script needs a lot of time and discipline.

A script is a unique literary form, because it's not the end product; it's a blueprint. If you're not thinking of that end product, there's going to be a disconnect.

When I started acting, I did many films without even an idea of what the script was about. The film would start, and then we would discover what we were expected to do on the sets. Those days have changed.

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

I didn't realize that, in doing a documentary, there is this process of discovery. It's not like a film or a play with a set script. It sort of reveals itself.

There are two separate scripts for 'Mockingjay' parts one and two. It's definitely one story, but there are two totally distinct and separate scripts.

I'm a chanteuse and a diva, and I'm an actress who likes a script.

For me, a script has to be convincing, bold, and experimental. It needs to overpower all my senses.