“I want to keep working. I want to step away from young adult fiction. I want to do theater periodically - Farragut North reminded me how great it is. I started out in theater. I trained in theater and then I kind of fell into film and TV. I want to work with interesting artists, talented actors, talented directors, and talented scripts. Not necessarily leading roles.” WantKindFilmYoungArtistActorsInterestingFictionStepsRolesTvsDirectorsAdultsTheaterScriptsYoung Adult Author:Max Irons
“I read a lot of scripts. I believe you've got to read one that you know you're not going to do, because you've got to educate yourself on what's out there to make the best decision for you.” KnowsBelieveI BelieveDecisionScriptsEducate Author:Eva Mendes
“I am not a fan of improvisation, because it bores me. Working off a tight scenario gives you the confidence and ability to - why don't we change this a little bit and bring it back to the script. You always discover things while shooting.” GivingLittlesBitsAbilityFansLittle BitScriptsShootingBoresScenariosImprovisation Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“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
“Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like a comic book but when you start making it, for some reason the film gets very serious.” BookReasonFilmTurnsCasesSeriousScriptsComicComic Book Author:Dagur Kari
“Directing is a reactionary job more than a creation job. The job is to react whether it's moment one, the first time you read the script or see an article or read a book or notice something happen on the street and have an idea for a movie, and it just continues from there on in. You're just reacting to dialogue, a performance, an audition, a headache, a piece of furniture, a piece of clothing.” FirstsBookIdeasMomentsHappensJobsPiecesStreetsCreationFirst TimePerformancesScriptsThings HappenDialogueArticlesClothingsAuditionsFurnitureHeadacheReactingReactionaries Author:Jason Reitman
“When doing a revival, you have a lot of people asking you questions about someone who played it before, and to me that's neither here nor there - it has no bearing on the material that I have to use. The material that is written down in a score and script that the writers originally used is what I use.” PeopleUseUsedWrittenMaterialsAskingScriptsScoreRevival Author:Kelli O'Hara
“For me there's always a line or two in a script, when you hit it you almost decide to do the whole movie off a line or two. You almost do it for the fun of getting to say a line or two like that. I don't have any specific plans, you know. I mean, if Seth Rogen calls with a great buddy pic, I'll be there.” IfsKnowsMeanTwoWholeFunLinesPlansScriptsBuddy Author:Edward Norton
“Doing a film and saying, I've done a really dark film and now I have to do a comedy... That's not me. If a script comes along and it's dark I'll absolutely do it and take the consequences. I'm not fussed about the image that goes along with it.” IfsDoneFilmDarkComedyConsequenceScripts Author:Daniel Craig
“When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.'” IfsWantCharacterMotivationalMotivationActorsScriptsSalary Author:Alfred Hitchcock
“I just believe in the movie. I don't care what the book was like. I don't care what the previous film was like or other films were like. I care only about the script I've got.” BelieveBookCareFilmScriptsDon't CareI Don't CareI CareJust Believe Author:Billy Connolly
“When you're dealing with TV and with movies, people dont take it as serious as they do with music. If a rapper does a song about shooting people on the block, and goes into a restaurant or grocery store, people grab their purses because they're afraid the person is violent. With TV and movies, people know it's okay, it's just a script.” PeopleIfsKnowsPersonsDoeSongSeriousTvsOkayScriptsStoresViolentBlockShootingRestaurantsRapperGroceriesPursesGrocery Stores Author:Suge Knight
“You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it.” LittlesIdeasCareNextActorsStepsFindingsScriptsShootingBubblesNext Steps Author:Morten Tyldum
“When you're tied to one show, you are very much at the mercy of the writers so you can suddenly get a script where you have a heart attack and die. I've got to be in The Guinness Book of World Records for having the most heart attacks on television.” WorldHeartBookShowsDiesRecordsTelevisionMercyScriptsTiedHeart AttackWorld RecordsGuinness Author:Alan Dale
“hen Baillie [Walsh, writer and director] wrote the movie for me I wasn't doing what I'm doing today, so when we actually came to make the movie it seemed silly to change it. But who knows? That's the way things go. What was interesting for me - and what was always interesting in the script - was that you've got someone who appears to have everything, or at least has the opportunity to have everything, and he's f**ked it up, or lost it.” KnowsWayTodayOpportunityLostInterestingDirectorsScriptsSillyHensKeds Author:Daniel Craig
“There's no need there to sit with the filmmaker for 11 years to develop the script, or go round the world raising money.” WorldNeedsYearsRoundsScriptsFilmmakerRaising Money Author:Tilda Swinton
“It's exotic for me to be given a script that's already written, and be given a pay cheque, and asked to dress up and play, and that's all.” PlayGivenPayWrittenDressesScriptsExoticCheques Author:Tilda Swinton
“I got a phone call from George Miller [the director] asking me to play this role. We sat down and he showed me on his computer a documentary-type montage sequence of real penguins swimming, in an Esther Williams synchronized sort of way, and doing things I have never seen them do. Then he explained his vision of the film, asked me to read the script and to voice the character. I was cast a little bit later, and he let me do the singing as well!” WayWellsLittlesRealPlayCharacterFilmBitsVoiceVisionRolesTypeDirectorsComputerLittle BitSingingLet MeAskingDown AndScriptsCastsPhonesSatSwimmingDocumentariesSequencePhone CallsPenguinsEsther Author:Brittany Murphy
“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
“Everything is in a script for a reason, and only by being part of a writing team (or writing it yourself), do you really understand the intention of every beat.” WritingReasonTeamBeatsIntentionScripts Author:Peter Jackson
“When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.” ScriptsCliche Author:Samuel Goldwyn
“If you have script problems and you don't fix them by the time you shoot, your script problems are now 40 feet tall.” IfsProblemFeetScriptsTall Author:Bruce Campbell
“If money comes along I will take it. I just want good scripts that try to make you think. I've been offered lots of money in the past but I just know that I would abuse it and get drunk.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantTryingPastAbuseScriptsDrunkLots Of MoneyMake You Think Author:Daniel Craig
“As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good.” ReadingActorsScripts Author:Kevin Nealon
“As a director, I have to feel realism from actors, and they can't be plastic. The words for me are secondary, but the chemistry between the actors is most important. However, you have to go by the script because it's related to production, otherwise you will not finish your project.” FeelsImportantActorsDirectorsProjectsScriptsProductionsRelatedChemistryPlasticRealism Author:Tommy Wiseau
“Writers get to stay with the piece. They don't just turn the script in and somebody else takes it over and goes out and produces it and edits it and all that stuff. We stay with the piece all the way through.” WayTurnsStuffPiecesProduceScriptsEdits Author:Wanda Sykes
“For me, I just like to be as fun as possible, but I do like to bring a lot to a character. Given the script or the show, I know my boundaries, limits, and how far I can go with it. As far as me choosing these characters that have a lot of personality, I don't necessarily think it's intentional. I just think that I try and come up with a backstory of who they are, depending on the script or how rounded these characters are, and just go from there.” ThinkingKnowsTryingI CanCharacterShowsGivenFunPersonalityLimitsScriptsCome UpBoundaries Author:Katie Cassidy
“I write the script; nobody sees it, not the people that put the money in the picture. I cast who I want, and make the film. That's why I've always felt the only thing standing between me and greatness, is me. There's no excuse for me not to be great except that I'm not.” PeopleWantWritingFilmFeltGreatnessStandingScriptsCastsExcuseNo Excuses Author:Woody Allen
“I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script that has a woman at the center.” FeelsWritingI CanDifferencesFemaleScriptsProtagonistsFired UpFemale Protagonists Author:Linda Woolverton
“I like the discipline of writing a script. You can't go into the character's head - you have to find these creative ways to help externalize what they're thinking.” ThinkingWayWritingCharacterHelpingCreativeDisciplineScripts Author:Gillian Flynn
“As a director who does not like to write, I am always looking for scripts that I can contribute to through directing. I don't want to do the same thing that the writer is doing; I want to add an angle or highlight a theme.” WantWritingDoeI CanDirectorsAddScriptsThemeAngleHighlights Author:Jen McGowan
“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
“I read the script just once, and then forget it.I just deal with what I see every day on the screen and whetherI believe it and understand it.” BelieveI BelieveForgetDealsScriptsScreensForget It Author:Thelma Schoonmaker
“You have to be a great storyteller. And you have to master the tools that you have to tell the story which are, inorder of importance, the script, the actors and then thetechnical means.” MeanStoriesActorsMastersToolsImportanceScriptsStoryteller Author:John Frankenheimer
“Well, I think there was a time when I first started that there was such a thing called 'a woman's film' and there were certain scripts that women would make. But I think that's changed a lot now. I think that if a woman director walks into a room with a script, it doesn't really matter what the subject matter is, or the genre is, so long as the financiers feel that the woman has the skills to make the film.” IfsThinkingFeelsFirstsWellsLongMatterFilmCertainWalksRoomsSubjectsChangedDirectorsSkillsScriptsGenreSubject MatterGenre IsFinanciers Author:Gurinder Chadha
“I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it.” PeoplePlayInvolvedProjectsScriptsGreat PeopleLots Of Friends Author:Philip Seymour Hoffman
“I have thus decided to make a certain film and now begins the complicated and difficult-to-master work. To transfer rhythms, moods, atmosphere, tensions, sequences, tones and scents into words and sentences in a readable or at least understandable script. This is difficult but not impossible.” FilmCertainDifficultImpossibleMastersDecidedScriptsComplicatedSentencesMoodRhythmAtmosphereToneTensionScentSequenceTransfers Author:Ingmar Bergman
“Right before Pamela Anderson met Tommy Lee I got this crazy script to do this incredible movie with her where I play this cop with a young partner like Brad Pitt who is in love with Pamela Anderson and he gets killed in the line of duty and she falls in love with me and it gets really crazy. I turned that down.” PlayYoungFallLinesCrazyDutyMetsFalling In LoveIncrediblesScriptsPartnersCopBrad Author:Hulk Hogan
“When the script for 'The Wrestler' kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, 'No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn't a good actor,' whatever Hollywood thinks of me.” PeopleIfsThinkingSaidFilmActorsHollywoodScriptsCredibilityThink Of MeGood ActorsWrestler Author:Hulk Hogan
“Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.” WayWritingYearsMadeHandsJobsUsedGivenFiveWeekCenturyTelevisionTvsSixHollywoodScriptsStudiosUsed To BeMy TimeContractsStaff21st CenturyBack WhenGreat JobMovie Business Author:Vince Gilligan
“The summer gig turned into my day job. I was an arts administrator who helped make indie flicks. At the filmmakers' encouragement, I tried shooting a couple of shorts of my own. Directing was stressful, it was not my strength. But writing the scripts and helping others with their scripts - that was a gas. Making stuff up the way I wanted to see it was the biggest kick I ever experienced.” WayWritingArtHelpingWantedJobsStuffMy OwnCoupleSummerEncouragementScriptsHelping OthersShootingFilmmakerKicksGasGigsStressfulShortsAdministratorsDay Jobs Author:Karen Walton
“I wrote lots of scripts that never got made and they were terrible. I thought they were good at the time. You can't write two scripts and expect your career to take off. Keep writing. Be you. Be original. A lot of people go for a genre, which is fine if you can do that really well, but we all have such layered histories. We all come from a unique background. Write about your past, write about you. Or make stuff up, but make it about something that really matters.” PeopleIfsWritingWellsMadeTwoMatterPastStuffCan DoCareersFineTerribleUniqueOriginalsScriptsBackgroundsGenreBe YouOur PastYour Past Author:Nicole Holofcener
“In the case of my second film The Fish Child (El Niño Pez), I had written the novel about 5 years before I made into a film. In the case of The German Doctor I had published the novel a year before I started writing the script, I even had another project to shoot. But I had this idea of the powerful cinematic language from the novel that I couldn't let go of.” WritingYearsChildrenMadeIdeasFilmLanguagePowerfulCasesNovelWrittenLetting GoProjectsDoctorsScriptsFishesCinematicPez Author:Lucia Puenzo
“When I started writing the script I thought that maybe someone else would direct it, but then I started to fall for it so much that I left the other project and I put all my time on The German Doctor.” WritingFallLeftProjectsDirectDoctorsScriptsMy Time Author:Lucia Puenzo
“As a young filmmaker, I shot a lot of stuff because I wanted to make sure that I got everything, but now I've gotten much more precise with my shooting. Editing is a whole other layer because then, sometimes you realize characters don't even need to say this or that. It becomes an issue of exposition, and over-explaining something. In the script, I'd reinforce certain things about what I wanted people to know two or three times, but in the editing room, I'd be like, "I only need to say this once, maybe twice."” PeopleKnowsNeedsTwoSometimesWholeCharacterWantedYoungCertainThreeStuffRealizingRoomsIssuesShotsScriptsShootingFilmmakerLayersEditingPreciseThree TimesExplaining Author:Storm Saulter
“You can start a documentary with just a camera, as opposed to a fiction film where you need actors, a crew, a script, a lot more start-up resources. It may be self-perpetuating.” NeedsMaySelfFilmActorsFictionResourcesCamerasScriptsCrewDocumentariesPerpetuating Author:Thom Powers
“I think having six people all with different energies and different perceptions all working around a script is quite profound. It’s not about, oh that’s what you should be doing.” PeopleThinkingShouldDifferentEnergySixPerceptionProfoundScriptsDifferent Perceptions Author:Jihan El-Tahri
“If the young filmmakers ask themselves enough questions and come up with enough answers and get the scripts tight enough.” IfsEnoughYoungAsksAnswersScriptsCome UpFilmmaker Author:Jihan El-Tahri
“There's a way of thinking that comes with being an editor that is incredibly useful on the set. It's not just a vocabulary thing or a right-to-left thing or script supervisor stuff. It's a way of thinking about the film and the shots and the way they fit together, what you need and what you don't need, and what you can get away with if you have to.” IfsThinkingWayNeedsTogetherFilmLeftStuffFitShotsScriptsGet AwayEditorsVocabularyWay Of ThinkingSupervisors Author:Joe Dante
“There are people I'm drawn to that you just can't do a tiny, no-budget movie with. I would like to pursue some of that stuff, to see if I could do a movie with some of those people. And I don't really write scripts myself, but if I read a script I thought was really great, I would totally be up for doing a more traditional movie. It's just that I don't exist in that world. right now.” PeopleIfsWorldWritingStuffRight NowScriptsTinyTraditionalPursueBudgetsIf I CouldReally Great Author:Joe Swanberg