“I'm an impatient guy and tend not to like to stay with one thing for a long time. I'll never be able to write as many scripts as I did for "Felicity" or "Alias" ever again. I'm just too impatient these days. I want to get on to the next project.” WantWritingLongAbleGuyNextOne ThingProjectsLong TimeScriptsThese DaysImpatientFelicityAliases Author:J. J. Abrams
“The script was always the most important thing to me and I loved the script. For one thing, I've always admired trees. I just worship them. Think what trees have witnessed, what history, such as living through the Civil War, yet they still survive.” ThinkingStillsImportantWarOne ThingTreeWorshipImportant ThingsScriptsCivil War Author:Kim Novak
“I learned one thing from De Niro: He taught me to listen. Nobody says anything strictly from the script. It's improvised. It was the best piece of advice I have ever gotten in my life. It has helped me through the past thirty years.” YearsPastPiecesOne ThingAdviceTaughtScriptsThirtySay AnythingThirty YearsDe Niro Author:Cathy Moriarty
“One thing that I don't think I do is play characters. Once you start claiming that you can do something that you're not, you're crazy. I think scripts can really surprise you. You go, "Wow, I did not know that that response could come from me. I did not know that I had that in me." And so, the process of making the movie is just finding that and digging a little deeper.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesPlayCharacterProcessCan DoOne ThingCrazyFindingsSurpriseResponseScriptsDeeperWowDiggingCan Do Something Author:Kristen Stewart
“Actors tend to not know how their performances are going to actually be used. Even though the script says one thing, in the edit, it can be something else.” KnowsUsedActorsKnow HowOne ThingPerformancesScriptsEdits Author:Idris Elba
“A solid theatrical education can only improve a screen performance. It gives you a fuller capacity to read a script and understand a character, for one thing. Its important to alternate between the two activities.” GivingTwoImportantCharacterOne ThingActivityCapacityPerformancesScriptsScreensTheatrical Author:Toni Servillo
“Some actors might just do one thing, and another actor does another thing. I do an awful lot of preparation with the script, really. What I do is repeat the script, over and over and over again. Through that, it's almost like it seeps into my enamel. I'm reading all the characters, as well as my own. That is where the bulk of my preparation goes into.” WellsDoeCharacterMightReadingActorsMy OwnOne ThingScriptsAwfulPreparationRepeats Author:Michael Fassbender
“I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to write scripts for television. I wrote for my comedy act. Then I wrote screenplays, and then I started writing New Yorker essays, and then I started writing plays. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the New Yorker essays, but they were comic. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. In my head, there was a link between everything. One thing led to another.” WritingLongPlayFormUsedComedyOne ThingTelevisionLateLong TimeScriptsComicProseLinksEssaysScreenplaysNew Yorkers Author:Steve Martin
“I end up improvising in almost everything to some degree, 'cause it's often necessary on movies. The script is one thing, and it's this kind of theory of what you're going to do, and then you get there on the day and you realize, "Oh, the script is not appropriate to this room, the door's over here."” KindEndsCausesRealizingRoomsDoorsOne ThingTheoryDegreesScriptsAppropriateImprovising Author:John C. Reilly