Quotes About Script

Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.

Also a good director and good dialogue. That's very important because you're bringing the words to life. So it's very important for an actor to have good dialogue.

I felt really strongly about this script [ Everybody Loves Somebody] because, like you said, it's a very specific way of life.

I pride myself, after long experience, that I can begin and stop weeping at the exact points demanded in the script.

Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete package. You know the beginning, middle, and end. You can plan it out more, which I like. But with television you get a new script every week, so it's constantly a mystery as to what you're going to be doing.

If I love the script and have a good rapport with the director, then first-time director can also be very special.

I think a good script is a rare thing, and I think no matter who you are you have to fight for the good ones.

I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It's rare when there's no script. I sort of like the latter better, because I'm more successful at it.

My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.

It's very rare for me to come across a script for NYMF that is truly its own animal. That's really what appealed to me about 'Valueville.' I still have my notes from when I first read it.

Sometimes you write music to a script or while a film is being edited. Sometimes I write without seeing any images, but that's rare. The approach is often based on practical decisions, but I'm interested in the narrative and physical space that music can occupy in a film or play.

It's rare that I read a script, and I immediately go, 'This is perfect. I can see myself in this.'

I very rarely read a script that I don't feel I want to change a lot.

Sometimes in theater, they'll talk about your character a lot before you enter, but that rarely happens in television.

In cinema, I would not really rate my costar and I would not pick a project because of the costar. I would pick a project because of the director. And the script.

Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.

For me, I never take a job thinking it's going to grab ratings or that it's even going to be a success. I don't. I just take the job because I love the character. Or I love the script. Maybe I love the director. But whatever I do, I never think about how it will do. That is not in my hands.

So many times in television, you get cancelled arbitrarily as a result of your ratings in the off season, and you don't have an opportunity to really script your ending, which can leave it an unsatisfying situation for both participants and the audience.

I have plans of becoming a director soon. I just finished my script. I don't know when I'll direct the film. It is ready and has reached its third draft.

A script narration is like watching a film, and I react to it like an audience with my own instinct. After that, I look for what is my character, what will I bring to the table in that role, how challenging will it be.

I had high hopes for 'Moonlight,' just off the reaction I had while reading the script.

My first reaction to the script is simple - whether I laugh or cry. I like to see a film from an audience's perspective and that is my first reaction.

With 'Hannibal,' it's like reactive scoring so I don't get ahead. I don't read a script; I don't want to know what's going to happen until its happening in front of me and I'm able to have an instrument in my hands that I'm playing to make some kind of a map, some sort of tonal map, that I can then build on.