“Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four of Shakespeare in Love, I said, 'I have to be in this movie.” FeelsSaidSometimesMomentsHandsReadingFourPagesScripts Author:Geoffrey Rush
“If I get two lines in the script, I somehow turn it into 20. I've got a bit of a bad habit of doing that, of just embellishing my little moment.” IfsLittlesTwoMomentsTurnsBitsLinesHabitScriptsBad HabitsLittle Moments Author:Rebel Wilson
“It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.” IfsTryingI CanMomentsSongGunScriptsRight ThingConfetti Author:Victoria Legrand
“I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.” MomentsAirProjectsScriptsCapsUp In The Air Author:David Wain
“The only thing that I always do - is once I've taken on a job, even just to do one scene in a movie, I ask myself, "What's happened the moment the kid was born, until page one of the script?" To answer that simple question, I have an infinite amount of work to do. And I enjoy that part as much as I enjoy any part of making movies.” MomentsKidsJobsAsksEnjoyBornSimpleAnswersTakenHappenedAmountScenePagesInfiniteScripts Author:Viggo Mortensen
“I'm living in the moment. I just try to move each of the stories, scripts and projects that I work on forward. And when they're ready and the people are ready to make them, we'll do that.” PeopleTryingMomentsStoriesMovingReadyProjectsScriptsLive In The Moment Author:David Heyman
“The moment you say, 'I want to do a role,' the story suffers. I don't set priorities in terms of roles or scripts.” WantMomentsStoriesSufferingTermRolesScriptsPriorities Author:Boman Irani
“We get the scripts before the table read, but I don't look at them until we go into the table read. I don't want to know, when I'm playing a moment in the current episode, what's going to happen because it might change how I'm playing that.” KnowsWantLooksMomentsMightHappensTablesScriptsCurrentsEpisodes Author:John Barrowman
“Every time I do a movie, I'm reading the script, or if it's something I have coming up, I'm reading the script, and I just spend hours and hours and days and weeks and months going over the script and just writing a lot of different ideas down, finding a little dialogue or just coming up with ideas for scenes and moments and all that kind of stuff.” IfsWritingKindLittlesIdeasDifferentMomentsReadingStuffHoursWeekMonthsSceneFindingsScriptsDialogueDifferent Ideas Author:Mark Wahlberg
“There's actually a big difference between story and character. A great story doesn't make a great movie. A great script, which defines its moments and characters can become a great movie. You can make a movie that makes a lot of money and it may or may not have great story or great characters.” MayMomentsCharacterStoriesBigsDifferencesScriptsLots Of MoneyGreat Character Author:Kevin Costner
“When you're writing a script you have the option to embellish on life or switch the order of events or make it generally more cinematic. I would stick too closely to my own experience and not necessarily think about the fact that it needs to have an event happen. Realising that I could channel my own experience into a story that was slightly more cinematic was a very important moment for me - allowing myself to accept that the kind of screenwriting I'm doing is a work of fiction.” ThinkingNeedsWritingKindImportantMomentsFactsStoriesHappensOrderMy OwnFictionAcceptingEventsSticksScriptsAllowingRealisingScreenwritingCinematicImportant Moments Author:Lena Dunham
“After you read the script, then you actually just have to be in the moment you're in, in order to make it believable. You can't give it away. You can't tip it off. For me, it's always about being truthful in the moment I'm in. Hopefully, being able to reveal what I'm feeling, you have to believe it.” GivingBelieveMomentsFeelingsAbleOrderScriptsHopefullyTruthfulBelievableBeing Truthful Author:Victor Garber
“The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need to hype our films.” NeedsGivingMomentsFilmScriptsNoveltyForeignersHype Author:Arin Paul
“There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's. That was a beautiful blend of drama and comedy. There's some great moments of levity in the script.” MomentsBeautifulFilmClassComedyTeacherFrontsDramaScriptsGreat MomentsLevityTourettes Author:James Wolk