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“Every single day in a thousand different ways, the script that I am writing across the pages of my life is dramatically impacting how others are writing theirs. And if I dare to recognize that I am writing far more scripts than this single one that I hold in my hand, would I not hold the page of this day and apply the pen of how I lived it in an unimaginably different way?”

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Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Try everything; listen to everyone. Follow no one. You are your own story guru!”

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Book:Anatomy of a Premise Line: How to Master Premise and Story Development for Writing Success

Source: Anatomy of a Premise Line: How to Master Premise and Story Development for Writing Success

“With the right tools, you can write anything ...”

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Book:Anatomy of a Premise Line: How to Master Premise and Story Development for Writing Success

Source: Anatomy of a Premise Line: How to Master Premise and Story Development for Writing Success

“Your life is a movie. You are the main character. You say your scripts and act to your lines. Of course you do your lines in each scene. There is a hidden camera and a director who you can ask for help anytime up above.”

“I was always bad at reading scripts. Back then, I’d be offered millions of dollars to do movies and barely crack the first few pages. I’m embarrassed to admit that now, given that these days I’m writing scripts myself and it’s like pulling teeth to get actors to respond. Maybe they feel how I used to feel: that in a life of fun and fame and money, reading a script, no matter the size of the number attached, feels all too much like school. The universe will teach you, though. All those years I was too this, too that, to read a script, but last year I wrote a screenplay for myself and was trying get it made until I realized that I was too old to play the part. Most fifty-three-year-olds have worked their shit out already, so I needed to hire a thirty-year-old. The one I chose took weeks and weeks to respond, and I couldn’t believe how rude his behavior was.”

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Book:Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

Source: Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

“God, He didn't write the scripts for the puny little players down here. We wrote them ourselves-with each day we lived, each word we spoke, each thought we etched on our brains. And Momma had written her script, too. And a sorry one it was.”

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Book:Flowers in the Attic

Source: Flowers in the Attic

“To embody a slice of life on stage/film/script/book is awe-inspiring; like peeking into a window to the soul or prima materia”

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Author:Val Uchendu

“God has a way of picking a “nobody” and turning their world upside down, in order to create a “somebody” that will remove the obstacles they encountered out of the pathway for others.”

“There are no great scripts - just great films.”

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Author:Malcolm McDowell

“I've never committed to a role without a script.”

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Author:Rebecca De Mornay

“There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.”

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Author:Tobey Maguire

“Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.”

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Author:Connie Nielsen

“I like good stories. Quality products and character are what's important. Even if the script isn't that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I'll go for it.”

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Author:Corin Nemec

“I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.”

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Author:Jeremy Northam

“I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do.”

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Author:Chris O'Dowd

“But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.”

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Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“Some scripts you read and say, 'I've just got to do this' and you find a way of making it work. Some things you turn down because of the impact on family.”

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Author:Miranda Otto

“If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.”

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Author:Dino De Laurentiis

“Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.”

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Author:Dino De Laurentiis

“I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the most amazing things I'd read, but it took a year to get a green light for production.”

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Author:Sasha Pieterse

“I'd love to say I made the smart decision of picking projects that became hits, but with 'The Good Wife,' I read the script and something inside me said, 'I love this, I want to do this.'”

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Author:Archie Panjabi

“It's a shame, but every time I get something scientific in the script, I read up to find out what I'm talking about - but then I'm on to the next script and it's forgotten.”

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Author:Jim Parsons

“When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk.”

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Author:Lana Parrilla

“There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.”

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Author:Ryan Phillippe

“I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn't have enough life experience at that point to write a movie.”

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Author:Todd Phillips

“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.”

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Author:Geoffrey Rush

“I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character for sure. And also, I think a lot about what kind of audience there is for the film, what they're looking for and ways to connect with them in the playing of a character.”

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Author:Jeremy Renner

“But, yeah, I'm really happy when I'm writing. When I'm being creative and when I have something that I can put down. You know, if you go out and you overhear a conversation or you have a thought, you have a receptacle to go home and say, 'Oh, this would be great in this script.' Your antenna's out in a different way, and I love that time.”

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Author:Josh Radnor

“I'm a sucker for a funny script. And then, as soon as I don't wanna be, one comes along and grabs me.”

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Author:Meg Ryan

“I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.”

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Author:Lorene Scafaria

“I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important.”

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Author:Amy Smart

“Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.”

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Author:Brittany Snow

“The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another.”

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Author:Imelda Staunton

“And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've stayed focused on the work so much that I haven't really noticed my life start to change except for I've gotten busier.”

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Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“I feel very blessed in my career to have been able to bounce back and forth between different things, television and film, comedies and some dramas, but I am, um, as long as the script inspires me and there good people, that's it. I'm in.”

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Author:Geoff Stults

“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.”

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Author:Jean Stapleton

“In 'Law & Order,' your main job is to stay out of the way of the plot. On another show you'd receive your script and see stuff that seems challenging and feel excited that the writers thought highly enough of you to write it for you.”

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Author:Jeremy Sisto

“I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.”

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Author:Norman Spinrad

“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.”

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Author:Scott Speedman

“I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.”

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Author:Audrey Tautou

“I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.”

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Author:Audrey Tautou

“I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation.”

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Author:Jeffrey Tambor

“I've been involved with some huge studio projects that have been bloody awesome. It all starts with a great script, doesn't it?”

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Author:Juno Temple

“But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.”

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Author:Mel Tillis

“I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.”

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Author:Olivia Thirlby

“I really want to work with Adele, I think she's amazing. Lykke Li as well. I love them both. I'd also like to work with The Script. I met them in Australia and we just got on like a house on fire.”

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Author:Tinie Tempah

“I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don't know why. It's not something conscious or that I'm doing on purpose.”

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Author:Gaspard Ulliel

“If I read a script and find it engaging and I start making choices in my mind on how to approach the work, than that's a good indication that it is something worth pursuing.”

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Author:Karl Urban

“If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.”

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Author:Dick Wolf

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