“There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.” StoriesFoundHavensScriptsGood Story Author:Ryan Phillippe
“And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've stayed focused on the work so much that I haven't really noticed my life start to change except for I've gotten busier.” ThinkingHavensScriptsFocusedBusier Author:Jennifer Lawrence
“I know it's boring to say this but I always start with the script. I mean if it's well written and it's a character that I haven't necessarily played before.” IfsKnowsWellsMeanCharacterWrittenHavensScriptsBoringWell Written Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I have been fortunate to get some really good scripts over the years and I haven't turned down anything that I regretted so far. And my manager who I've been with for over 25 years is very good at knowing what I should and shouldn't do a lot of times.” ShouldYearsHas BeensKnowingHavensVery GoodScriptsManagersFortunateTurned Down Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“It's a rare thing when you can read a script in one sitting and you haven't looked at the watch or you've gone to make a cup of tea.” WatchesGoneHavensSittingScriptsCupsTeaCups Of TeaRare Things Author:Tom Hiddleston
“I honestly believe, and I've said it many times, that the universal stems from the specific and I can't walk around with a performance and ask everyone how they feel about it, but if noble is an opinion that people have I'll accept that. I've been asked many times why I don't play bad guys, or heavies, and I would do it, absolutely, in a second, just haven't been offered any so... if anybody has a script out there tonight I'm more than willing.” PeopleIfsFeelsBelieveSaidI CanPlayGuyAsksWalksAcceptingOpinionHavensWillingPerformancesUniversalScriptsNobleHonestlyTonightStemBad Guys Author:Denzel Washington
“Whatever the best scripts are and you just want to play roles that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always the goal no matter if it's a good guy or a bad guy, or a comedy, or a drama. It doesn't matter, you just want something that's substantial you can sink your teeth into and that you haven't done before, something that's really going to challenge you.” IfsWantMatterDonePlayGuyGoalChallengesRolesComedyHavensDramaScriptsTeethBad GuysWant SomethingGood Guy Author:Stanley Tucci
“I structure the scripts and work on them on films and work on scenes with writers and but I haven't written a script myself, I really respect what they do and I'm fortunate I get to work with people that I really enjoy working with and we all kind of spitball and work together on these things, but I haven't written a script yet.” PeopleKindTogetherFilmEnjoyWrittenHavensSceneStructureScriptsAll KindsFortunateWorking Together Author:Tom Cruise
“I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.” GivenQualityHavensTelevisionGoes OnScriptsNever Say Never Author:Nicolas Cage
“A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career.” WorldWritingFirstsEndsStoriesKidsAgeThreeCareersHappenedHavensCollegeBecomingApproachSummerHollywoodTwentiesScriptsJournalistComing Of AgeCampsGraduatesSixteenScreenwritersCollege GraduatesSummer Camp Author:Nora Ephron
“My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel...” IfsNovelTakenHavensScriptsSpringboards Author:John Hurt
“Then we started looking at story and what was making sense and what wasn't making sense, emotionally and thematically the intention that we had a year earlier when they were working on the script, did all that come across? It's all kind of generic things, but it's fascinating and it's weird - I haven't made that many films, but it's weird that every time you think you learn from your mistakes on your last film you have a slew of new mistakes and things that you learn.” ThinkingYearsKindMadeStoriesLastsFilmMistakeHavensIntentionScriptsAll KindsMake SenseFascinatingGenericLearn From Your Mistakes Author:Bryan Burk
“Lot of the scripts I've been in with other non-white actors haven't been great. Lot of non-white actors ain't all that great.” ActorsWhiteHavensScripts Author:Wesley Snipes
“I haven't had a chance to pick up a good book in a long time, because I've been either reading scripts or learning them or writing them. And so, by the time the day is done, I usually just want to click on The Bachelor and fall asleep. But I gravitate toward biographies and things like that.” WantWritingLongBookDoneFallReadingChanceHavensLong TimePicksScriptsBiographiesGood BookClicksBachelors Author:Justin Theroux
“I just passed on some a script that I was sent, because I said, "I haven't yet played the person staying home, the one that says, 'Good luck, honey,' or whatever." And so that's what I look for. Therefore, by virtue of that exclusion, I'm always trying to find roles that are challenging.” TryingLooksPersonsSaidHomeChallengesRolesVirtueHavensLuckScriptsStayingHoneyGood LuckAlways TryingExclusion Author:Geena Davis
“My dream roles haven't been written yet. My favorite thing to do is to dive into the uncharted territories of a new script that's untainted by someone else's idea of the character.” IdeasCharacterDreamRolesWrittenHavensMy FavoriteScriptsThings To DoTerritoryFavorites ThingsUnchartedUncharted Territory Author:Erica Schroeder
“When I read a script, I am already in the movie with my music, and I can dive into a world that I haven't seen before.” WorldI CanHavensScripts Author:Volker Bertelmann
“I haven't done it by myself at all. I've been surrounded by a really, really good crew of all ages. I think it's important to have a good age range in the crew so that some of us have experienced that period, or something close to that. But the script, of course, is really inspiring and you just have to trust that. Sometimes on film a glass can be as big as a car, so if the details are right, then they take up as much space on screen as the streets that we didn't have a chance to show as London really has changed since then.” IfsThinkingImportantSometimesDoneShowsBigsAgeFilmCoursesChanceSpaceStreetsCarHavensChangedPeriodsScriptsGlassesDetailsLondonScreensRangeCrewReally Inspiring Author:Lone Scherfig
“I just couldn't believe that it [Into the Forest script] had fallen into my lap, because I felt so incredibly connected to my character, and I understood her, and I really...I haven't had that feeling about a script since I had read Thirteen or The Wrestler when I was just like, "No one else can do this." I just feel so passionate about it.” FeelsBelieveCharacterFeelingsFeltCan DoHavensUnderstoodScriptsPassionateConnectedForestsFallenLapThirteenWrestler Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“I read the script [of Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] and went, "I haven't read anything this good, in a long time." I thought it was absolutely brilliant. The dialogue is so sparkling, smart and witty. You also have these insane, crazy characters, like energy sucking vampires and holistic assassins. It's all completely weird.” LongCharacterEnergyCrazyHavensLong TimeSmartScriptsWittyBrilliantDialogueInsaneVampireAgencyDetectivesHolisticAssassinsSparklingDirk Gently Author:Samuel Barnett