Quotes About Script

My manager sent me the first two scripts for 'True Detective,' and I just thought they were so interesting and that the world they were depicting was so titillating to me.

It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well handled. I thought it was even more moving because it was a true story and that made it even more poignant.

Acting is just about the script and the director giving you notes. In improv, it's more about trusting that the group will carry you.

I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.

Life ain't a drama. And life isn't just a comedy. Life is sometimes horrifying. Life is science-fiction. There are all elements and faculties that we navigate, so I just expect a script to reflect that. As long as it's truthful. I think genre-bending is just being honest.

It's not the actor's job to be interesting; that's the script's job. It's our job to be truthful and brave.

Love every role to be new, and I always like to bring a freshness to every character I play, but that comes down to the script. So, it's important that it's a good script with good, truthful characters and truthful subjects.

Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.

Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.

One of the funniest lines in my show was written for me by Alan Bursky. I really want to learn this routine!

Some people say that they read the first 20 pages, and then decide if they want to do the film or not. But, I have to read the entire thing cause anything can change in a script.

And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.

If a script has that affect on me during a reading, then it is definitely a film I want to be part of.

I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.'

It's hard to get a great idea sometimes. When you get a good one and you have a good script, you want to keep shepherding it to make it happen.

When I can't get the character out of my head, and I'm in my bedroom and I start to actually act out the scenes that I've read in a script, I think okay, I really want to do this.

An actor always wants to sink his teeth into something.

I've always just shown up to set and said the lines, [but] I want to help develop scripts and help cast and help bring a visual tone to something.

Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.

I'd like to do a play, but I can't find the right thing. I don't want it to be a starring role. I just want to play a really interesting character.

As an actor, you're pretty much a hired gun. You are reading other people's words off of a page and doing what they want you to do.

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

I'm sent a script. I read the script. If I love it, I want to do it. And that's it I don't care who's in it, how much money is behind it, really to an extent who's directing it.

It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.