“When you are shooting with a robot you can't improvise. You can't really... the script is kind of the script.” KindScriptsShootingRobots Author:Jake Schreier
“Cinematography was incredibly foreign to me, so I read as much as I could about it. Once I figured out that it was just photography with a set shutter speed, I got some slide film and I just went about storyboarding the script and taking snapshots. I took a ton of time doing it just to make sure I knew exactly what I was doing. By the end of it I knew what the film was going to look like - my exposure and the composition and everything. I wasn't scared of cinematography anymore.” LooksEndsFilmPhotographyScriptsScaredSpeedCompositionExposureSlidesSnapshotsShuttersCinematographyStoryboarding Author:Shane Carruth
“The biggest mistake I made was not having a full-time producer. I was securing locations and wardrobe and making sure people get called to show up on time and getting the film to the lab and getting the camera, and all this stuff that I'm happy to do, but if I'm doing every little thing, I'm not concentrating on my story. So it never gets any better than the script.” PeopleIfsLittlesMadeStoriesShowsFilmStuffMistakeCamerasScriptsProducersLittle ThingsLocationWardrobeLabsConcentratingBiggest Mistake Author:Shane Carruth
“What I really love, is finding a script and fantasizing and going to a different world and kind of portraying a character that is interesting. Because other lives interest us, that's why we read magazines like People and try and fascinate and drool over what other people are doing.” PeopleWorldTryingKindDifferentCharacterInterestLove IsInterestingFindingsScriptsMagazinesDifferent WorldsPortraying Author:Alex Pettyfer
“I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .” TryingSometimesToo MuchScriptsBrokeAlways TryingSelective Author:Michael Pitt
“I'm sure great scripts are hard to find, but I'm definitely open, and waiting to see what comes my way.” WayHardWaitingScriptsMy Way Author:Lenny Kravitz
“The script is the most important thing for me. I'm advised that other things are important too, and they are. The director that you'll be working with is hugely important, and the cast that are with you is really important as well. But, for me, the thing that gets my heart excited and really makes me invested in something or not is just the quality of the script.” WellsHeartImportantQualityMy HeartDirectorsImportant ThingsScriptsCastsExcited Author:James McAvoy
“I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.” LooksDirectorsScriptsLikes Author:Jack Nicholson
“Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them.” WaySometimesMightKnownScriptsAcceptedTurned Down Author:Jack Nicholson
“I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.” I CanFilmActorsCan DoScripts Author:Jack Nicholson
“Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from the clichés about the three-act play - structure, development.” PlayWantedThreeDevelopmentMovedStructureScriptsExperimentsMainstreamFar AwayAmerican Movie Author:Jack Nicholson
“On the set of an independent film you can tell that nobody is doing it for the money. Everyone is there because they love the script. A smaller budget sort of unifies everyone; it's a real team effort and that's amazing. But these opportunities just don't present themselves that often for me, so basically any chance I get to do something different I jump on it.” DifferentRealFilmOpportunityChanceEffortTeamIndependentScriptsBudgetsIndependent FilmTeam Effort Author:Will Ferrell
“Sometimes I watch films that I can't believe got made. Especially because I read scripts that are truly incredible, that will never get made. I don't know who is behind those decisions. It's like you just have to doodle something on a page about the underdog who finally gets the girl and the film gets made.” KnowsBelieveMadeI CanSometimesFilmGirlDecisionBehindsWatchesLike YouPagesIncrediblesScriptsUnderdog Author:Jennifer Lawrence
“The truth of the matter is this - I never look for films specifically, because ultimately if the fundamentals of the character and the script and the director aren't there, it makes it a moot point.” IfsLooksMatterCharacterFilmDirectorsFundamentalsScripts Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“When I read a script, I'll have a very visceral gut reaction to what does this mean to me? How does she feel in my skin? Could I play this role?” FeelsMeanDoePlayRolesSkinsScriptsReactionsGutsVisceral Author:Emily Blunt
“I never make conscious decisions. If my agent says to me, "It's a good script," I'll do it. I don't plan. I've got a lot of things to do. I'm at the roulette table and my luck seems to be running at the moment. I might as well stay there until it runs out.” IfsWellsMomentsSeemsMightRunningDecisionPlansConsciousTablesLuckScriptsAgentsThings To DoRoulette Author:Anthony Hopkins
“I'm just an actor. It's the way the script is written, and it's easy. I don't have think about it. When you receive the script, you know pretty well how to play it, apart from little technicalities like the accent.” ThinkingKnowsWayWellsLittlesPlayActorsEasyWrittenScriptsAccentsTechnicalities Author:Anthony Hopkins
“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
“If I'm writing a novel, I'll probably get up in the morning, do email, perhaps blog, deal with emergencies, and then be off novel-writing around 1.00pm and stop around 6.00pm. And I'll be writing in longhand, a safe distance from my computer. If I'm not writing a novel, there is no schedule, and scripts and introductions and whatnot can find themselves being written at any time and on anything.” IfsWritingDealsMorningNovelWrittenSafeComputerDistanceScriptsGet UpSchedulesEmailEmergenciesIntroductionBlogsNovel Writing Author:Neil Gaiman
“The script in many ways is limiting and novel is liberating. You get to go into the heads of your characters and their background and have fun with them; something you are discouraged from doing with a script. With the novel, I can tell you what the characters are thinking, I can tell you their view of the world, background information, things I wouldn't dare touch in the script.” ThinkingWorldWayI CanCharacterFunViewsNovelInformationScriptsDareBackgroundsHaving FunDiscouragedLiberating Author:Juliet Asante
“I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success.” WorldSituationKnownCareersThis WorldTerribleScripts Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“When you're in Hollywood and you're a comedian, everybody wants you to do other things. All right, you're a stand-up comedian, can you write us a script? That's not fair. That's like if I worked hard to become a cook, and I'm a really good cook, they'd say, "OK, you're a cook. Can you farm?"” IfsWantWritingHardHumorFunnyFairsHollywoodScriptsCooksComedianFarmsNot FairStand Up ComedianGood Cook Author:Mitch Hedberg
“I wrote a script, and I gave it to a guy who reads scripts, and he read it, and he liked it, but he said he thinks I ought to re-write it. I said, "Fuck that - I'll just make a copy!"” ThinkingNeedsSaidHumorFunnyGuyScriptsLikesCopiesScrews Author:Mitch Hedberg
“It took me three, four years, to get from my first film to my second film, banging on doors, trying to get people to give me a chance. Writing, struggling, with no money in the bank, working as an editor on the side. Working as a cameraman on the side. Getting little jobs, eking out a living. Trying to stay alive, and pushing a script that nobody wanted.” PeopleGivingWritingTryingYearsFirstsLittlesWantedJobsFilmThreeSidesChanceStruggleFourAliveDoorsGive MeScriptsPushingEditorsFour YearsNo MoneyStaying AliveBangingCameramanGive Me A Chance Author:George Lucas
“All of my films have been very hard to understand at the script stage because they're very different. At the time I did them they were not conventional. The executives could only think in terms of what they'd already seen. It's hard for them to think in terms of what has never been done before.” ThinkingHas BeensDifferentHardDoneFilmTermStageScriptsExecutivesConventional Author:George Lucas
“I can picture certain things in my mind, while writing the script, but then I can also tell that everyone else might be a little confused about what it's supposed to look like at the end of the day. But it all works out. I find a way.” WayWritingMindLooksLittlesI CanEndsMightCertainScriptsWork OutConfusedThe End Of The Day Author:Rob Zombie
“I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.” IfsThinkingPlayTelevisionScripts Author:Al Pacino
“A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there's a movie. It's very evocative; it's like a first cut because you hear 'She walked to the door,' and you visualize all these things. 'She opens the door' . . . because you read the stage directions, too.” IfsTryingFirstsSometimesPlayTogetherReadingActorsRecordsCuttingDoorsStageScriptsDon't TrustStage Directions Author:Al Pacino
“Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.” CharacterResponsibilityScriptsRelative Book:Al Pacino Source: Al Pacino
“When I worked with Woody Allen, I only got the parts of the script that I was in. I was able to piece together the narrative from that, but I remember being quite excited to watch the movie - the movie that I was in but didn't know what happened in, like, 65 percent of.” KnowsAbleTogetherRememberWatchesPiecesHappenedPercentScriptsExcitedNarrativeWoody Author:Chiwetel Ejiofor
“I started out as an actor, but I forced myself to be a writer, even though I wasn't very good at it and had never written. I don't think I ever passed an English course in my life. My first eight to 10 scripts were pretty horrendous, but I stayed at it, stayed at it, and stayed at it, until I eventually found a voice and a subject like Rocky that people were interested in.” PeopleThinkingFirstsCoursesActorsFoundVoiceWrittenSubjectsVery GoodScriptsEight Author:Sylvester Stallone
“When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.” WayPreparedScripts Author:Sydney Pollack
“I never had the desire to be a professional Twitterer. Every now and then something dumb pops into my head and I'll tweet it. I don't feel any obligation to respond to everyone. Not that I don't appreciate people sending me messages on there, but there are too many. Responding to everyone would take away time for all the stuff I'm actually in the business for.” PeopleFeelsDesireStuffMessagesAppreciateScriptsPopsObligationDumbNow And ThenTweetRespondingAppreciate People Author:Aziz Ansari
“Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.” IfsWholeJoyEasyScriptsShooting Author:William H. Macy
“I get scripts all the time, but I read this [Baggage Claim] thoroughly, and I loved it. It was light hearted, cute, sweet, and funny. I told my agent that I liked the script, but I did let my acceptance of the role slide a little, until I was watching television one day; scrolling through the stations, and there was this play. And I don't like plays made for the screen. But, this one, "Suddenly Single", caught my attention.” LittlesMadePlayLightAttentionRolesAcceptanceTelevisionSweetOne DayClaimsScriptsCaughtScreensAgentsCuteStationsSlidesHeartedBaggageWatching TelevisionLight HeartedScrolling Author:Jill Scott
“What happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.” PeopleHappensScriptsFlash Author:Johnny Depp
“I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and [Latino roles] were either nonexistent or written as the maid or a drug dealer. We're no longer just that. I'll play any part that challenges me. What's important is that all races have choices.” ImportantPlayRememberChoicesReadingChallengesRaceRolesWrittenDrugScriptsLatinoWhat's ImportantMaidsDealerDrug Dealers Author:Eva Mendes
“In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing, for example. It's exactly the same in architecture. Architects also put together spatial episodes to make sequences.” TogetherExampleScriptsVariousArchitectureSuspenseLinksArchitectEpisodesEditingSequenceSpatial Author:Rem Koolhaas
“I'm not ambitious when it comes to my acting career. I'm not breaking down my agency's doors or sending out headshots. Even when I'm offered work, I always want small parts. When it comes to things that other people have written, I just don't know what I'm doing. I'm terrible at memorizing a script and reading lines. I get confused and I don't understand and it just looks fake to me. It's more difficult for me to be creative that way.” PeopleKnowsWayWantLooksReadingDifficultLinesActingCareersCreativeWrittenDoorsTerribleScriptsFakeAgencyConfusedAmbitiousBe CreativeBreaking DownSmall PartsMemorizingHeadshots Author:Amy Sedaris
“I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.” KnowsWeekWake UpScriptsExcitedEmail Author:Bailee Madison
“He comes back with the script, and it's racist like a 1940's Newspaper.” HumorFunnyScriptsNewspapersRacist Author:Katt Williams
“I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional.” TryingRealitySituationScriptsRealist Author:Wolfgang Petersen
“Everyday life became infused with urgency as I tried to speak and act in ways that fit the holy script and glorified God in new contexts.” WaySpeakFitHolyEverydayScriptsEveryday LifeUrgency Author:Kevin Vanhoozer
“In animation, you may be working with 20 writers, and everybody has to write the same thing. You can't have episodes that don't feel like they belong. In comics, you're gonna write a whole run, which means it's your style that's coming through. But when you're working on a show that's collaborated with a dozen other writers, you have to have a style that blends the show together. So you can't write it the way you normally would, because your script will stand out from all the others.” WayFeelsWritingMayMeanWholeShowsRunningTogetherStyleScriptsDozenEpisodesStanding OutAnimation Author:Marv Wolfman
“You have to leave the window open for better classes to come along as you go. You can't grow too proud of your script. You have to let the thing shape itself. It guarantees the best classes will always be used and it also keeps you from going braindead. If you grow bored and uninspired working on something, the audience will be able to tell.” IfsAbleUsedGrowsAudienceProudShapesWindowScriptsBoredGuaranteesProud Of YouUninspired Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“I can remember the time I would get my scripts and spent the entire weekend breaking them down and playing with them, and putting a lot of work into them, trying to bring the character to life, and to make interesting choices. It was one of the things to me that told me that I needed to change things up a little bit, because to me, I felt the passion was lacking from some of my performances.” TryingLittlesI CanCharacterRememberChoicesPassionFeltBitsInterestingNeededLittle BitPerformancesDown AndScriptsWeekendLacking Author:James Scott
“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
“The inspiration is all in the script, in the text. So whatever it is, either it is a film or a book to be illustrated, anything. Everything you need to know is in the text. So the thing is trying to find right tone and voice, the right style, the right way of expressing the emotions in a story or in the location of the story, but it is all in the text.” KnowsWayNeedsTryingBookStoriesInspirationFilmVoiceEmotionStyleScriptsToneLocationRight Way Author:Dave McKean
“In most of my films I write the music into the script. I'm listening to songs and lyrics that empower the themes of the film. There's a lot of Indigenous music that has not been heard widely and I love the idea of giving that music to the rest of the world.” WorldGivingWritingIdeasFilmSongHeardListeningScriptsThemeEmpoweringIndigenous Author:Warwick Thornton