“First, you do a piece of material that begins and ends and has a flow; it's not chopped up as in a film, where in an extreme case you might be doing the last scene of the script the first day that you go to work, and you don't know enough about the character you're playing.” KnowsFirstsEndsEnoughCharacterMightLastsFilmCasesPiecesMaterialsSceneFlowScriptsExtremes Author:Jean Stapleton
“I'd like to do the young cadet thing again for sure, but that's why I wanted to do this, to see if I could do it. I took the scenes out of the script and put them together and read them as one little arc, story and that seemed to work.” IfsLittlesStoriesWantedTogetherYoungSceneScriptsIf I CouldArcsCadets Author:Scott Speedman
“To be honest I don't watch the show, I don't watch any TV, so I have no idea what the show is about. I go to Hawaii, shot my scenes and script and 'Ciao.' I'm not a 'Lost' fanatic and it's a disappointment for thousands people and friends that are dying to know what will happen. They know more than me.” PeopleKnowsIdeasShowsHappensLostWatchesHonestDyingTvsSceneShotsScriptsDisappointmentBeing HonestNo IdeaHawaiiFanatics Author:Sonya Walger
“I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim.” WritingBitsTelevisionSceneScriptsLive ByChocolateMottoSlimMy MottoTartsFunny Chocolate Author:Dawn French
“It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go where the script for my character was very sparse, and I enjoyed it. With Never Let Me Go, I had a whole book written from my character's point of view, so I always knew where I was. But, with Ryan [Gosling], it was just easy. He's such a brilliant actor and he is so prepared. He doesn't have to warm himself up to be in a scene. He's just in it. It draws you in, in a way.” IfsKnowsWayBookDifferentWholeCharacterActorsEasyViewsWrittenEasierSceneDrawsLet MePreparedScriptsWarmPoint Of ViewBrilliantEnjoyedAccentsLet Me GoNever Let Me Go Author:Carey Mulligan
“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
“With films, I just scribble a couple of notes for a scene. You don't have to do any writing at all, you just have your notes for the scene, which are written with the actors and the camera in mind. The actual script is a necessity for casting and budgeting, but the end product often doesn't bear much resemblance to the script--at least in my case.” WritingMindEndsFilmActorsCasesWrittenProductsBearsCoupleSceneCamerasNotesScriptsCastingResemblanceScribblesBudgeting Author:Woody Allen
“Aside from a couple of signature flourishes, there's nothing to mark Paycheck as the product of acclaimed action director John Woo. In fact, there's little about this movie that makes it worth anyone's time and money. With a script that waffles between being hilariously absurd and insultingly stupid, and action scenes that won't cause anyone's pulse to skip a beat, Paycheck is less appealing than a lump of coal in a Christmas stocking.” LittlesFactsActionCausesStupidProductsCoupleSceneDirectorsBeatsMarkScriptsAbsurdCoalPulseSignaturesSkipLumpsPaychecksTime And MoneyStockingsWaffles Author:James Berardinelli
“A film is a living thing. The screenplay is a guideline. You really need to have a good, sound script to know that you have a dramatic structure that's going to work thematically, and to know how one scene will got through another, and to get a sense of character.” KnowsNeedsCharacterFilmSoundKnow HowSceneStructureScriptsDramaticGoing To WorkLiving ThingsScreenplaysGuidelines Author:Jose Padilha
“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
“In stand-up you can go either way. It's live. Somebody might say something in the crowd, you might respond to it. But in a movie you could be spontaneous too. But you pretty much have to stick to that story or that scene or that script, but in stand-up you can go wherever you want to. It's more freedom.” WayWantStoriesMightSceneSticksScriptsCrowdsSpontaneousBe Spontaneous Author:Chris Tucker
“The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.” StoriesFrontsSceneScriptsSentencesRippleShoguns Author:John Rhys-Davies
“My writing's like a journey. I'll know some of the stops ahead of time, and I'll make some of those stops and some of them I won't. Some will be a moot point by the time I get there. You know every script will have four to six basic scenes that you're going to do. It's all the scenes where your characters really come from.” KnowsWritingCharacterFourJourneySceneSixScriptsAhead Of Time Author:Quentin Tarantino
“Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.” GivenTelevisionSceneScriptsAmazed Author:James Wolk
“Stephen Moyer is probably the most gracious, gifted actor that Ive met. Hes really intelligent. He has a real sensitivity to his character, to scenes, to scripts.” RealCharacterActorsMetsSceneIntelligentScriptsGiftedSensitivityGracious Author:Valerie Cruz
“If I want to kiss, I shall kiss. If I am told that a lovemaking scene is integral to the script, I will consider it.” IfsWantSceneKissingScripts Author:Kareena Kapoor
“I do well to interpret scripts to the best of my ability so even if I'm given a monster to play a love scene with, I will.” IfsWellsPlayGivenAbilitySceneScriptsMonsters Author:Majid Michel
“I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma. This guy was evil, and this girl was very sweet. And in the end, we'd have to see eight endings because we'd also have to know what happened to the uncle. It's like, "Are you kidding me?!"” KnowsEndsAmericaFilmGuyGirlEvilInterestingHappenedSubjectsSweetSceneScriptsEightTendenciesThemeUnclesThis GuyVery InterestingDilemmaThis GirlVery Sweet Author:Mads Mikkelsen
“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 only ever privately tell people stuff for the scene. And I often ask what they feel is right. Normally, by the time that we're filming, if it doesn't work, it always the script.” PeopleIfsFeelsAsksStuffSceneScriptsWorking It Author:Richard Ayoade
“I did some writing for that movie. The remake of Planet of the Apes. I didn't write the script. But I wrote some lines that they ended up... not using. ... I wrote one line. I thought it would've been perfect. I don't know if anyone saw the movie. It's the scene where the ape general comes in. And they're trying to decide if they should attack right there, or wait until a little later. And I wrote: "Man these bananas are good!" But they didn't use it. I did all of that research.” IfsKnowsMenShouldWritingTryingLittlesUseFunnyWaitingLinesPerfectSawsComedyPlanetsSceneResearchScriptsApesBananasRemakesOne Line Author:Brian Regan
“When I can't get the character out of my head, and I'm in my bedroom and I start to actually act out the scenes that I've read in a script, I think okay, I really want to do this.” ThinkingWantI CanCharacterSceneOkayScriptsBedroom Author:Saoirse Ronan
“I wrote the plot [for the Persepolis ]and Vincent [Paronnaud] and I wrote and discussed the shooting of the script. Vincent then took care of the production design, the actual shooting, and what was going on within each scene. It's very difficult, though, to draw a line between who did what. Because Vincent would say something, and I would add something, and at the end you have this film, yet no clear idea of who did what.” IdeasEndsCareFilmDifficultLinesClearDesignSceneDrawsAddScriptsProductionsShootingPlotPersepolisProduction Design Author:Marjane Satrapi
“In an ideal world the script is written lean and tight and therefore there are no scenes left on the cuttring room floor and therefore no extended edition.” WorldLeftRoomsWrittenSceneIdealsScriptsIdeal World Author:Peter Jackson
“Jackson doesn't bother to read the scripts anymore. He just checks to make sure he has one loud scene where he gets to shout, then cashes the paycheck.” SceneScriptsChecksBotherLoudCashPaychecks Author:Samuel L. Jackson
“In the old days when I first was coming up, you would turn up on set in the morning with your coffee, script, and hangover and you would figure out what you were going to do with the day and how you were going to play the scenes. You would rehearse and then invite the crew in to watch the actors go through the scenes. The actors would go away to makeup and costume and the director and the DP would work out how they were going to cover what the actors had just done.” FirstsDonePlayTurnsActorsWatchesMorningFiguresSceneDirectorsScriptsWork OutCoffeeMakeupGoing AwayInvitesCrewCostumesOld DaysHangover Author:Paul Bettany
“Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it.” SceneScriptsLayersMining Author:Linus Roache
“I'm a big believer in rehearsal and a big believer in the actors being able to find the material themselves and identify with the beats themselves without us having to stick to the actual language of the script, just for them to understand what each scene is about.” BigsAbleActorsLanguageMaterialsSceneBeatsSticksScriptsBelieverRehearsal Author:Dean Israelite
“Obviously the highest pressure scene, I guess it might've been a tie - what was the bigger death, Tyrion with Shae, Tyrion wth Twyin, and then Joffrey were all scenes where I wanted to deliver what was in the script married to what fans will be expecting, and it was a lot of pressure and I'm really glad it's over.” MightWantedFansSceneMarriedHighestBiggerPressureScriptsGladTiesExpectingTyrion Author:Alex Graves
“There weren't any deleted scenes, it was just a matter of tightening stuff. I didn't have any deleted scenes in what I did as far as I know. It's very unusual on Game of Thrones for there to be a deleted scene because the scripts are pretty locked in. There's rarely a reason to say, "Hey, we don't need this scene."” KnowsNeedsMatterReasonGamesStuffSceneScriptsHeyUnusualLockedThrones Author:Alex Graves
“Once you are shooting a movie, even if it's your own script, you have to let it go at a certain point. That's true for every film. It breaks up into phases where the thing that you have in front of you is the thing you have to address, and you can't worry about what you imagined a scene was going to like and that it came out differently, because that's what you have to make work.” IfsFilmCertainBreakWorryFrontsSceneScriptsShootingAddressesPhasesLet It Go Author:Todd Haynes
“So, as opposed to getting people in to read the script and read scenes with me, what I wanted to do was sit down and chat to these people and just say, "Okay. Do you share my sense of humor? Do you understand what this film is getting at? Do you know the tone that we're trying to get to?" And it was interesting.” PeopleKnowsTryingWantedFilmInterestingShareSceneOkayDown AndScriptsToneDo You KnowSense Of Humor Author:Dan Mazer
“Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in.” ThinkingWritingCuttingSceneScripts Author:David Twohy
“It's very tricky to know when to stop. I think there are definitely moments where you feel that is the heart of a scene. When you're working on the script, you're looking for a handle on it.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsHeartMomentsSceneScriptsHandleTricky Author:Oliver Parker
“As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.” WorldWritingI CanIdeasMightJobsValuesActorsCan DoSceneAddScriptsRuinsVagueQuirksVague Ideas Author:Sally Phillips
“I remember like that scene with Pharrell where they're at the music video shoot, we have this on camera actually, Pharrell's confused because we weren't doing the script. We were doing all this improv and then Diddy says to him... Pharrell's like I don't understand what's going on and Diddy goes, "We do a lot of improv". (laughter) I remember being we just made him into a comedy nerd. We somehow turned Sean Combs into a comedy nerd, so.” MadeRememberComedySceneLaughterCamerasScriptsVideoConfusedNerdSeanCombs Author:Nicholas Stoller
“I think that I would like to have that kind of a budget [hundreds millions dollars] and I think the reasons for it are it gives you more time and it gives you the opportunity to be more ambitious with what you want to do with the camera and also how a scene works. I wouldn't want to direct those kinds of scripts.” ThinkingWantGivingKindReasonOpportunityMillionsSceneDirectCamerasDollarsScriptsWhat You WantBudgetsMore TimeAmbitious Author:Duncan Jones
“Unfortunately, we don't have a depth of African scriptwriters, so it's easier to Africanize something that already works. Local script writers are giving me James Bond budget scenes that I can't even produce.” GivingI CanProduceEasierSceneDepthScriptsLocalsBudgets Author:Mo Abudu
“I like to rehearse with the actors scenes that are not in the script and will not be in the film because what we're really doing is trying to establish their character, and good acting to me is about reacting.” TryingCharacterFilmActorsActingSceneScriptsReactingGood Acting Author:Jim Jarmusch
“That's the thing about prep, is that it's a joy to have it there and you can spend all this time prepping, but ultimately you have to look at your script and turn up on the day. It's embedded in there somewhere but you have to forget it all and play the scene because we are storytelling.” LooksPlayJoyTurnsForgetSceneScriptsStorytellingForget ItEmbeddedPreps Author:Jenna Coleman
“Improv is not something I had a lot of experience with, because for a long time, my only experience in front of a camera was all television, which is pretty rigid script-wise, except for the occasional scene where you toss in an ad-lib just to elongate something.” LongWiseFrontsTelevisionSceneLong TimeCamerasScriptsAdsOccasionalToss Author:Gary Cole
“Sitting opposite Steven Spielberg, while he turns the pages of your script and talks about each scene as he goes, is about the best film school you can get.” SchoolFilmTurnsScenePagesSittingOppositesScriptsFilm SchoolBest Film Author:Matt Charman
“I love working that way, and that's sort of the way that Mark, Jay, and I have been working for years, where we start with scripts that are really solid and well-written. But once we get into the scene and we start doing the work, we definitely loosen things up.” WayYearsWellsHas BeensWrittenSceneMarkScriptsWell Written Author:Steve Zissis
“Theratre is not like like in film and TV, where you have to stop and go back and keep redoing the same three pages for two hours. You get to go through the whole 80 pages of the script, which is incredible. You get to keep acting on the feelings you had just moments before. You don't have to psych yourself up for the scene. You can just go off what you were already feeling.” TwoWholeMomentsFeelingsFilmThreeHoursActingTvsScenePagesIncrediblesScriptsPsych Author:Taissa Farmiga
“And when I first started writing, it was literally in acting classes. And what would happen is now it's really easy to get scripts and stuff but back then, you know, oftentimes you'd buy the novelization to a movie if you wanted to get an idea of what the scene, you know what happened in the scene.” IfsKnowsWritingFirstsIdeasHappensWantedEasyStuffActingClassHappenedSceneScriptsEasy To GetActing Classes Author:Quentin Tarantino
“Sometimes you read a script and it's like, "You'll improv and this is just a blueprint of what the scene could be," and that's never a good sign. And it's never encouraging as an actor to take that on, really.” SometimesActorsLike YouSceneScriptsBlueprints Author:Paul Rudd
“They didn't send me the script for Scary Movie 4 because the script was very secretive. So I never did get one actually. But it is David Zucker and there is complete trust. So I read my scenes and I thought they were really funny. I thought it would be a riot to play the blind girl.” PlayWould BeGirlSceneBlindScriptsScaryRiotSecretive Author:Carmen Electra
“Roger [Corman] didn't actually hire me, though. I was hired by AIP [American International Pictures], the studio that made the picture, which was Sam Arkoff and Jim Nicholson. It was a great learning experience for me, because not only did I work on the script, but they hired me back to go on location when they were making the movie, to write new scenes and so forth.” WritingMadeGoes OnSceneInternationalScriptsStudiosLocationRogerLearning ExperienceNicholson Author:Curtis Hanson
“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
“Somebody comes to your house. You know they're coming, so it's not a surprise. And they give you an envelope that has your scenes in it. And they sit in the car outside for a half an hour while you read your scenes, then they ring your doorbell and you give your scenes back. Then you shoot the movie a few weeks later or something. The next time you see your scenes is the night before you start shooting. I never read the script [Blue Jasmine], so I didn't really know what it was about.” KnowsGivingNightNextHouseHoursHalfWeekCarSceneBlueSurpriseScriptsRingsShootingNext TimeEnvelopesJasmine Author:Alden Ehrenreich