Quotes About Script

I get nervous before openings or premieres or when someone's reading a new script, and I get nervous when my daughter isn't in my immediate field of vision.

In choosing any role, I ask the same questions: what kind of part is it? is the role challenging? does the director have a vision? is the story moving? etc.

A script like 'Nightcrawler' gives me an opportunity to truly realize a vision that's mine, which is exciting.

Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great writing. If there's something about the script, that's what I go for, although I know that that doesn't always translate because sometimes it's about the vision of the director.

I want to work with great directors. I've picked films based on the script or the character and seen them collapse because the directors were not strong visionaries.

All toxic scripts have the injunction "Don't be you." An injunction shames the authentic self and causes self-rupture.

What a perfectionistic system creates is a "how to get it right" behavioral script. In such a script one is taught how to act loving and righteous. It's actually more important to act loving and righteous than to be loving and righteous. The feeling of righteousness and acting sanctimoniously are wonderful ways to mood-alter toxic shame. They are often ways to interpersonally transfer one's shame to others.

I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again.

As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.

What is your Primary Aim? Where is the script to make your dreams come true?

I would love to do films, but the script has to excite me.

When I listen to a script I don't think too deeply, my thought is 'will it excite me to do this?' I don't overthink.

I get so excited about reading a new script.

I am mostly concerned about the script. If I get something that excites me, I will do it.

Even on television, it is all about the script of the show and my character. It has nothing to do with whether I am bagging the lead role or any other.

I go by the content of the script and not the length of the role.

So I just play the character, I play the lines.

Sometimes in a movie, the lines are so perfect.

It's nice when someone knows their lines.

For 'Mad Men,' we really had to stick to the script, and you want to. It's not like you feel your hand is being forced. The words you get are the words you say.

North-east films are still not on a national level. But 'Axone' is a mainstream film. I found the script very authentic and also very funny.

With 'Deep Space Nine,' I learned that when you get a script, you should give honor to the writer. On 'Larry Sanders,' even on '24,' you could make up stuff.

'It could be better' is the only thing that anyone should write in the margins of their own script.

After all, to love somebody is to give them the power to hurt you, and nobody can hurt you if you're the only one writing the script.