“The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.” MeanReasonTurnsComedyThousandHundredRomanticScriptsRomantic LoveMean GirlsVery Romantic Author:Hugh Grant
“No one is really a method actor, everyone has their way of going about it, preparing for it, but method is preparation, it's what you do to prepare. So my method is to read the script. Some actors' method is to read the script a hundred times and in the doing of it, to immerse themselves in as much of the reality as possible. Me, I believe strictly in acting. If I am out of breath, I'm out of breath. I ain't running nowhere.” IfsWayBelieveRealityRunningActorsI BelieveActingHundredBreathsMethodScriptsPreparationPreparing Author:Morgan Freeman
“Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be careful of slipping into ""psycho-speak," however. Kids pick up instantly your attempt at being a pseudo-shrink. Most resent it and are apt to tune out anything that sounds like you're reading a script from the latest child-psychology text.” MindChildrenKidsReadingSpeakSoundPsychologyLike YouPicksPercentHundredScriptsCarefulTunesBroadsBe CarefulShrinksResentPsychoSlippingPseudoChild Psychology Book:The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World Source: The Single-parent Family: Living Happily in a Changing World
“When I'm writing a script, before I can write dialogue or anything, I have two or three hundred pages of notes, which takes me a year. So, it's not like "what happens next." I've got things that I'm thinking about but I don't settle on them. And if I try to write dialogue before then, I can't. It's just garbage.” IfsThinkingWritingTryingYearsI CanTwoHappensThreeNextPagesHundredNotesScriptsDialogueSettlingTake MeGarbage Author:Charlie Kaufman
“I remember the first sale I made was a hundred and fifty dollars for a radio script, and, as poor as I was, I didn't cash the check for three months. I kept showing it to people.” PeopleFirstsMadeRememberThreePoorMonthsHundredDollarsScriptsRadioChecksFiftyCashThree Months Author:Rod Serling
“I'm one of those actors where usually I'll read a script, and then I'll have a flurry of notes. I'll ask a hundred questions about things, and really get in there and examine it.” ActorsAsksHundredNotesScripts Author:Clive Owen