Quotes About Script

I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great, in that way.

If I'm not in love with the script, there's nothing. It doesn't matter what you give me. It has to start with the script.

I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.

Well, I love TV, and I love a good script.

Don't compare your story to a movie or a book because it is written by a script writer and yours by God

Then you're saying this theater isn't haunted? I'm saying so what if it is? said Edgar. People have been saying the place is haunted for nearly fifty years now, and in all that time the ghost hasn't done one bit of harm. Why should she start now? Maybe she doesn't like the script, Ken Abbott said. Thanks a lot, Ken, said Alan Bland.

Biology isn't just genes playing out some unalterable script. It is sensitive to the world around it

You can either be on the stage, just a performer, just going through the lines... or you can be outside it, and know how the script works, where the scenery hangs, and where the trapdoors are.

I went to journalism school, so sometimes writing the script of 'Being Mary Jane' is me putting my journalism hat on.

I always believe that Kar-Wai has a complete script: he just doesn't show it to us. He wants us to experience and explore the character. He gives you a lot of space, and you know every time will be a very long journey. You just live in the character, and that's very different from other directors.

Anyway, he and I worked on the script together, and I must say he was a joy to work with. Very enthusiastic.

I'd work with anyone that the script requires me to. I'd never let my personal biases rule my judgement.

My parameter of judging a script has not changed over the years. I still go for a script where the story interests me. Yes, there are times where I might go wrong; say, out of five scripts, I might go wrong on one.

When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical.

What I don't like is when I see stuff that I know has had a lot of improv done or is playing around where there's no purpose to the scene other than to just be funny. What you don't want is funny scene, funny scene, funny scene, and now here's the epiphany scene and then the movie's over.

You need a director, a script, and a role to justify a risk.

I always feel this huge responsibility to the script when it arrives, keeping it confidential.

The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.

I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.

People ask me if I have comedy writers, and I'm like, 'Are you kidding me?'

I don't believe in the popular dialogue, 'I will kiss if the script demands it' or something like that.

It's not that we go around the set thinking, 'Oh, today we are going to kiss, so let's enjoy'. It's not that. It's acting. If it's important for the script, so be it.

Whenever I read a script, I don't differentiate between a kissing scene or an emotional scene.

There's no harm in kissing scenes. I'm open to them as far as the script demands it.