Quotes About Script

I do get antsy if I haven't got lines to learn, a character to play. But yes, I do take holidays.

I didn't really listen to music when I was doing homework or when I - when I work on a script. I tend to drift to NPR and news.

When I get my script in hand, I make it a point to completely know my script well. It is something that comes automatically to me. That is my basic homework.

For a Tamil debut, I wanted to make sure the script is the right one. We are hopeful 'Bramhotsavam' will be that film.

I am attached to an incredible script called 'Wonder Drug,' about the DES drug disaster. It's a female-based drama, and I am so proud to be a part of because hopefully it will help evoke change - not only in our industry, but in the battle again corruption in big pharma.

The thing that I look for in a script - I'm not looking for anything next because you never know where life's going to take you, so you can't just expect, 'I want to do this next.' So I'm not expecting anything; I'm just hoping.

When I read the script for 'War Horse,' I was in absolute tatters.

You know what I would really like to do? I'd like to do a half hour drama with comedy in it.

The way I analyze a script, I don't look at how many days I have off. I see how far they're going to push me. That's just the way I am.

For me, I just like to be as fun as possible, but I do like to bring a lot to a character. Given the script or the show, I know my boundaries, limits, and how far I can go with it.

In TV, you are much more likely to see the episode closer to the script as written - in terms of the order of the scenes - than you would in a movie, and here's why: you don't have as many days to edit. You have 10 to 12 weeks or more to edit a feature, and you have four days to edit TV. That's a huge difference.

I don't want to work just for the sake of working. Generally, if a good script comes in, I read it, and if it appeals to me, it appeals to me. And it doesn't have to be anything - it doesn't have to be the main character; it doesn't have to be a huge part.

The first writer I developed a script with was John Hughes, and that was 'Mr. Mom.' That was my first feature film.

The script of 'Hum Paanch' was extremely powerful, written by Imtiaz Patel. He has written the characters so well, people got hooked with each of them.

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

We are all working from the same dog-eared script.

Change of plan–, she called to Jonah. Can you drop us off in Rome? Yo, am I a movie star or a taxi service? Jonah grumbled from the depths of the script pile. Technically, your neither, Hamilton puffed, lifting weights again. I mean, you're a star and you've made movies ...

Script writing advice, from (William?) Rotsler (p.80) Funny is better than serious Short is better than long Short and funny is where you stop.

It was as if I'd found myself in a performance of some extravagant, complex drama, and I didn't have a script. But I smiled, and smiling was easy, no matter how strange and disorienting the street seemed to be.

It was as if I'd found myself in a performance of some extravagant, complex drama, and I didn't have a script.

To me, it always comes down to character and script and then director. If a character belongs to me, it's mine. We belong to each other, and I feel a fierce need to tell that story, and it just so happens that a lot of these characters have been residing in pretty dark worlds.

I've done a few roles in the past where people got quite worried when I started drifting away from what was written on the script. Often, they see improvisation as worrisome, because that's adding time to their day. But, in 'The Umbrella Academy,' they didn't worry too much about that, because Netflix has loads of money.

I don't worry too much about learning lines per se. The memorization is the easy part for me, usually. For me, it's more about working on the context, back story, intention, motivation, etc. Once that's in place, the lines come pretty naturally.

When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.