“I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.” ThinkingYearsWellsStoriesActorsDevelopmentYears AgoStructureScriptsBonesGood Sense Author:William Mapother
“And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development.” KnowsWritingUsedGuyStageBrotherDevelopmentGloryScriptsVariousThis GuyBladesArrestedChuckSolomonStages Of Development Author:Will Arnett
“What's fun about the story development at Pixar is it's a journey. You don't just write a script and then that's the movie you make. It's just constant evolution and being open to that and that collaboration with the voice actors and with the artists and animators at Pixar.” WritingStoriesArtistActorsFunVoiceJourneyDevelopmentEvolutionConstantScriptsCollaborationAnimatorPixar Author:John Lasseter
“There are a lot of scripts that you can like, but rarely are there directors attached when you're in development with something and that's stressful.” DevelopmentDirectorsScriptsStressful Author:Amanda Seyfried
“Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from the clichés about the three-act play - structure, development.” PlayWantedThreeDevelopmentMovedStructureScriptsExperimentsMainstreamFar AwayAmerican Movie Author:Jack Nicholson
“Suzanne [Collins] was very involved in the development of the script. She wrote the first draft. She was very involved with Billy Ray, when he wrote his draft.” FirstsDevelopmentInvolvedScriptsRays Author:Nina Jacobson
“I've been doing It's Aways Sunny for 12 years, and so I have this cable sensibility. When I read the Grinder script, I was like "this is edgy," which is great, but in a different way from Arrested Development. I feel like the characters are a little more relatable, so maybe that's the difference.” WayFeelsYearsLittlesDifferentCharacterDifferencesDevelopmentScriptsDifferent WaysSensibilityCablesRelatableArrestedSunnyEdgyGrinder Author:Mary Elizabeth Ellis
“I find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that's been gone over, you can tell, like rings on a tree, by how bad it is, how long it's been in development.” LooksLongGoneTreeDevelopmentScriptsRingsOver You Author:Joss Whedon