“Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.'” WantSawsFourSafePagesScriptsDuesHeyBossBlogs Author:Mindy Kaling
“When you're casting, you get a page or two - just enough to do the scene. Now that you're in the world, you get the whole script.” WorldTwoEnoughWholeScenePagesScriptsCasting Author:Mike Colter
“You really get a feeling, when you're reading scripts, pretty quickly. Within 20 or 25 pages, you can get a sense of the part. I always think about whether I'm right for it and whether I can do it. If I don't think I'm right for it, it should go to somebody else.” IfsThinkingShouldI CanFeelingsReadingCan DoPagesScriptsI Can Do It Author:Molly Shannon
“[Noah Hawley] just a fantastic writer. It's always about the script, it's always about the book; it always is. If it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage. That's what attracted me to him first and foremost.” IfsFirstsBookStagePagesScriptsFantastic Author:Lauren Shuler Donner
“["I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ] really jumped off the page. And there were so many specific notes within the context of the script. Music cues, for instance.” WorldFeelsHomeThis WorldPagesNotesScriptsInstance Author:Elijah Wood
“The creation of a film starts with an idea, a notion of a time period or characters, and you get really excited about the idea, and sell it to others if you need their support to write the script. You can't wait to get started, and then you try to start, and you struggle with the blank page, and you get some ideas, and they're bad ideas, and you write bad stuff. It's really bad.” IfsNeedsWritingTryingIdeasCharacterFilmStuffWaitingSupportStruggleCreationPeriodsPagesSellsNotionScriptsExcitedBlankGet RealBad IdeasBlank PagesTime PeriodsBad Stuff Author:Whit Stillman
“The script is a starting point, not a fixed highway. I must look through the camera to see if what I've written on the page is right or not. In the script, you describe imagined scenes, but it's all suspended in mid-air. Often, an actor viewed against a wall or a landscape, or seen through a window, is much more eloquent than the lines you've given him. So then you take out the lines. This happens often to me and I end up saying what I want with a movement or a gesture.” IfsWantLooksEndsHappensActorsGivenLinesWrittenAirMovementWallScenePagesWindowCamerasStartingScriptsLandscapeFixedGesturesHighwaysEloquentStarting PointSuspended Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“How could you not know?" His voice was full of wonderment. "You changed me utterly. You were like a...like a bright, wonderful bloom in a garden full of weeds. Like a graceful capital on a page of plain script, a letter decorated with the deepest, finest colors in all Erin. Like a flame, Caitrin. Like a song.” KnowsSongVoiceWonderfulChangedColorPagesGardenLettersScriptsFlamesWeedFinestYou ChangedErin Author:Juliet Marillier