“I've always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it! Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I'd just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.” PeopleIfsGuyEnjoyChanceKnownScriptsAlbumsChances AreOther GuysDrawers Author:Al Yankovic
“I actually had a chance to be in Delta Farce, but I couldn't do it because I read the script.” ChanceScriptsFarceDelta Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“Too many people are surfing the web and trying to figure out the politics of getting a movie made or taking meetings and trying to get someone to read something instead of creating a truly great script, because something great has a great chance of getting made, but something average that you've sort of talked people into reading doesn't have as good a shot.” PeopleTryingMadeReadingChanceFiguresCreatingShotsMeetingsAverageScriptsSurfingSurfing The Web Author:Scot Armstrong
“On movies, I like to involve the cast in the writing of the script. I like to have a rehearsal period, after which I do the last draft, which gives me a chance to incorporate anything the actors have come up with during the rehearsal period, so I'm very inclusive as a writer.” GivingWritingLastsActorsChancePeriodsGive MeScriptsCastsCome UpRehearsalGive Me A Chance Author:John Cleese
“Usually, you get a script and you have the whole story. All the acts are there, for a play. You know what happens in the first, second and third acts, and you know how it starts, where you go and where it finishes. [With American Horror Story: Asylum], it's a whole new experience. I don't know where it's going, and I don't know what's going to happen next. It's been an interesting way to work. It's made me work in a much more fluid, braver way, just taking every chance that comes along.” KnowsWayFirstsMadePlayWholeStoriesHappensNextChanceInterestingKnow HowHorrorThirdsScriptsWorking ItFluidAsylumsNew ExperiencesHorror StoriesInteresting WaysAmerican Horror Story Author:Jessica Lange
“On the set of an independent film you can tell that nobody is doing it for the money. Everyone is there because they love the script. A smaller budget sort of unifies everyone; it's a real team effort and that's amazing. But these opportunities just don't present themselves that often for me, so basically any chance I get to do something different I jump on it.” DifferentRealFilmOpportunityChanceEffortTeamIndependentScriptsBudgetsIndependent FilmTeam Effort Author:Will Ferrell
“It took me three, four years, to get from my first film to my second film, banging on doors, trying to get people to give me a chance. Writing, struggling, with no money in the bank, working as an editor on the side. Working as a cameraman on the side. Getting little jobs, eking out a living. Trying to stay alive, and pushing a script that nobody wanted.” PeopleGivingWritingTryingYearsFirstsLittlesWantedJobsFilmThreeSidesChanceStruggleFourAliveDoorsGive MeScriptsPushingEditorsFour YearsNo MoneyStaying AliveBangingCameramanGive Me A Chance Author:George Lucas
“I had no intention of replacing Arnold [Schwarzenegger]. There were a few things that made me want to do the movie. They were the script which had a different direction to it, and it was a chance to do a very different Quaid. I didn't read the short story until I went to college.Reading the story had a different effect on me of how I pictured him to be and the tone of the story was different. In the story, he's a bit more of an everyman.” WantMadeDifferentStoriesReadingBitsChanceEffectsCollegeIntentionScriptsToneShort StoryDifferent DirectionsSchwarzeneggerEverymanQuaid Author:Len Wiseman