“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
“I think I'm up for not trying to play a literary heroine. I think I'd rather just do someone that has just been created in a script, rather than in a book that everyone knows and loves. The difficulty with it and the reason these characters are so loved is that every woman and man that reads it understands it in a different way. They're so relatable, but different aspects will be drawn from different people.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenWayTryingBookDifferentReasonPlayCharacterMen And WomenAspectAnd LoveDifficultyScriptsDifferent WaysDifferent PeoplesRelatableHeroines Author:Lily James
“I've got huge tubs full of stuff that I can sell on eBay. If there are people out there that are interested, I want them to come my way and buy my jackets and hats and scripts that are signed by everybody.” PeopleIfsWayWantI CanStuffHugeSellsScriptsMy WayHatsJacketsTubsEbay Author:Gillian Anderson
“I used to pile on the detail, which was probably a way of hedging my bets while I was working out my own way of doing things. I've cut it back over the years, but some of the descriptions can still be still pretty dense. So the answer is somewhere between fairly detailed and maybe too detailed. Fortunately, people are seeing the final pages and not my raw script.” PeopleWayYearsStillsUsedMy OwnAnswersCuttingSeeingPagesFinalsScriptsDetailsWork OutDescriptionDenseHedging Author:James Vance
“Much to my surprise, there's a sense for people in the cable industry that fiction writers might actually be good at script writing. You can write dialogue!” PeopleWritingMightFictionIndustrySurpriseScriptsBe GoodDialogueCablesFiction Writers Author:Matthew Specktor
“Path To War was the last thing that John Frankenheimer directed, I think, before he died. I'm a huge U.S. history buff, and I studied the Vietnam era in college, so when I read the script, I was, like, "I really want to be in this thing so badly..."” ThinkingWantWarLastsPathCollegeHugeDiedScriptsErasVietnam Author:Peter Jacobson
“Woody Allen, that was a dream come true, although I never really talked to him. Auditioning was fun, because you don't really hear much about the script. They just said, "They want a Woody Allen type," so of course I got the call.” WantSaidDreamCoursesFunTypeScriptsDreams Come TrueWoody Author:Peter Jacobson
“That mental grind is the same, and this show has to be approached with the same mentality. Rest is paramount. Taking care of my voice and making sure I have the right foods in my body is paramount. Making sure I'm doing my technique work and staying in the script is all substantial. Continually pushing myself to find different nuances in the character on a nightly basis. This is definitely boot camp for me all over again, and Broadway in general is a boot camp for all actors.” DifferentCharacterShowsBodyCareActorsVoiceBasesScriptsTechniqueStayingPushingCampsBootsMentalityBroadwayGrindNuanceParamountBoot Camp Author:Eddie George
“Reading the script [Insane Farting Corpse], by page two or three, I felt that way. I thought, I'm in. It was so beautiful and insane and funny and I wanted to see it happen.” WayTwoHappensWantedBeautifulThreeReadingFeltPagesScriptsInsaneCorpses Author:Paul Dano
“Some of the stuff I get the scripts for, I read it and I'm like, "Wow." We're doing some crazy stuff on this show [Legends of Tommorow]. it's going to be amazing.” ShowsStuffCrazyScriptsLegendsWow Author:Franz Drameh
“I think every script has meaningful messages no matter what it is, because inherently life is full of meaning and every single day we lean a lesson.” ThinkingMatterLife IsLessonsMessagesNo Matter WhatScriptsMeaningful Author:Shailene Woodley
“I always find it fun to read a script and then find the messages in the script because I believe every story has them.” BelieveStoriesFunI BelieveMessagesScripts Author:Shailene Woodley
“So something I've felt I've learned with The Cosmopolitans shoot is using some agility and changing things quickly. That's something I found really useful on this shoot too. The gestation of The Cosmopolitans and this are slightly different from my other films. The script would be done and I'd be cutting it, but I wasn't always writing new material.” WritingDifferentDoneWould BeFilmFoundFeltCuttingMaterialsScriptsI've LearnedAgilityGestation Author:Whit Stillman
“I explained to Amazon that I don't like outlining or projecting what something's going to be. I like to allow a story to arise as I'm writing scripts. I find it horrible when I try to think of something for the plot without really being on the ground and seeing where it goes. I was really resistant to do the mini-bible. So I gave them something, but I really didn't want to do it that way.” ThinkingWayWantWritingTryingStoriesSeeingScriptsAriseHorriblePlotAmazonOutliningWriting Scripts Author:Whit Stillman
“From the time I got the first couple of scripts [of Jessica Jones], I always felt that this was groundbreaking material and a groundbreaking character.” FirstsCharacterFeltMaterialsCoupleScriptsJessicaGroundbreakingJessica Jones Author:Krysten Ritter
“I don't normally get very star struck. However, I was just at a table read for a movie. It was an animated movie where they have all the actors come in and sit around a big table and read the whole script out loud so you can see what's working, what's not working. And this is an animated movie that Paul McCartney is doing and he's producing it. So I got to meet Paul McCartney.” WholeBigsActorsStarsTablesScriptsLoudAnimatedAnimated Movies Author:Rob Huebel
“I've seen it personally that people have a natural sensibility to Arabic script. I don't know it if it's because of the shape, I don't know what it is in this script that makes it so universal. But even if you don't understand it, you still have this feeling; you can feel the piece of art in front of you.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsArtStillsFeelingsNaturalPiecesFrontsShapesUniversalScriptsSensibility Author:eL Seed
“I've written a script which will help change consciousness and free people from an old dead Earth and help them make their journey to the new one where we will have true health, creativity, freedom, love and dream sharing. We are working on getting the funding for it and will be the deepest communication I've shared yet which goes back to your question up top.” PeopleHelpingDreamEarthConsciousnessCreativityWrittenJourneyCommunicationScriptsFundingLove Freedom Author:Giuseppe Andrews
“I love this script [The Hollars] because I'm lucky enough to come from a really tightknit family.” EnoughLuckyScripts Author:John Krasinski
“Richard Jenkins read the script [The Hollars] and really liked it, but he said, 'If you can get Margo Martindale, I'll do it. Otherwise, good luck.” IfsSaidLuckScriptsGood Luck Author:John Krasinski
“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
“Luckily the script [of X-files episode] was written wonderfully and that became who I was and I was quirky, and I was kind of agitated and not entirely happy, but at the same time, witty.” KindWrittenScriptsWittyEpisodesFilesQuirkyX Files Author:Rhys Darby
“If I'm a director and I read a script and I say yeah I really want to do this, I would never walk away because the deal wasn't very good - that I wasn't getting paid very much or that the chances that I would see anything on the back end were remote because of the financial waterfall and the way it's structured. I would never use that as a reason not to do something.” IfsWayWantEndsReasonUseChanceWalksDealsDirectorsPaidYeahVery GoodFinancialScriptsWaterfalls Author:Steven Soderbergh
“I remember working with Jackie Chan on Shanghai Noon [2000], and when we were working on the script, I thought that my character thought about being an outlaw the way a kid today would think about being a rock star, as a way to impress girls. So it was just kind of a funny idea, but once we had that idea, it changed the character and made it something that was funnier to me to play.” ThinkingWayKindMadeIdeasPlayCharacterKidsTodayRememberGirlStarsRocksChangedScriptsMade ItImpressRock StarNoonOutlawJackieShanghaiImpress A Girl Author:Owen Wilson
“And James L. Brooks then sort of became our mentor, brought us out to Los Angeles and worked on the script for a year with us. We learned so much working with him - just being able to spend time with him, the quality of his mind, the things he comes up with and says. I think Wes [Anderson] and I could go to dinner tonight and spend the whole dinner thinking and talking about things that Jim has said to us over the years.” ThinkingYearsMindSaidWholeAbleQualityTalkingScriptsCome UpDinnerTonightLos AngelesMentorJust BeingEnd TimesSpend TimeBrooks Author:Owen Wilson
“My husband [Julius Tennon] and I started a production company. We've already optioned a book and some scripts to do exactly that, to create more complicated, multi-faceted roles for African-Americans, especially African-American females. I think it's important.” ThinkingImportantBookCompanyRolesHusbandFemaleScriptsProductionsComplicatedAfrican AmericanMy HusbandJulius Author:Viola Davis
“The script [of Regression] wasn't the draw for me. It was largely Alejandro [Amenabar] and his way of talking. To hear him talking about the script was way more interesting than the script. He wrote it, and so, English is his second language. It's an interesting thing. I've had that before. I was directed by Alfonso Cuarón before, too. It's always interesting when you're being directed by somebody like that. So much of directing is about communication, and finding the right words, and what it means, and how to convey certain emotions and ideas.” WayMeanIdeasCertainLanguageInterestingEmotionTalkingCommunicationFindingsDrawsScriptsInteresting ThingsRight WordsRegressionWay Of Talking Author:Ethan Hawke
“I love working on scripts. I love coming up with ideas about what people would dress like or talk like. I love all that.” PeopleIdeasDressesScripts Author:Ethan Hawke
“You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.” DirectorsScriptsGuarantees Author:Douglas Booth
“The script's always important, but there are some things that have come out in the past year that, when we read them, everyone was like, "Oh my god, this is going to be the next best thing!" Then the movie falls completely flat on its face.” YearsImportantPastFacesFallNextScriptsBest ThingsFlats Author:Douglas Booth
“More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.” IfsDirectorsScriptsGood Directors Author:Douglas Booth
“I think everybody came into it with the understanding that they would go through an experience that is literally not by the book, that is not executing the script and then going home, but living and breathing these characters and being in the moment with each other, and improvising and creating a lot of present-tense intensity between characters.” ThinkingBookMomentsCharacterHomeUnderstandingCreatingScriptsBreathingIntensityTenseGoing HomeImprovisingExecutingPresent Tense Author:Oren Moverman
“All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.” WayKindFilmIndividualViewsDirectorsScriptsFilmmakingLinear Author:Paul Greengrass
“There's a script, then you're going to shoot the script and then you cut that and then that's the end of the film. And that's never really been how I've seen it.” EndsFilmCuttingScripts Author:Paul Greengrass
“I read a script or I read a project or I read a novel and I know that I'm going to spend two to three years of my life with that, exclusively. So you better like it. There better be an honorable, real need to make that movie.” KnowsNeedsYearsTwoRealThreeNovelProjectsScriptsThree YearsHonorable Author:Robert Schwentke
“I'm not looking for artistic license with the script. I tend to arrive at a form with the script and feel that that should be for the time being what we aim for.” FeelsShouldFormAimScriptsArtisticLicense Author:Robert Schwentke
“I'm quite severely dyslexic so I struggle with acting in certain ways. I always have to put in triple the amount of effort, which would always frustrate me a lot. I suppose that some people can just look at a script once and know it. That's not me. I really have to spend a bit of time with the lines. But it's my job and I've got better and better at it. If you're learning a lot, things start going quicker. Doing the lines with repetition and you just get it in your head somehow.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayLooksJobsCertainBitsLinesEffortActingStruggleAmountScriptsRepetitionDyslexic Author:Douglas Booth
“There's only one way to prep, so far as I know. You have your script, you hire the people you want, you find your locations and your setups, everybody shows up and you shoot the film.” PeopleKnowsWayWantShowsFilmScriptsOne WayLocationPrepsSetups Author:William Monahan
“Martin [Campbell] is very energetic and precise. He'll on the set like four hours early with a flashlight and I thought, well, I'll certainly try to be very neat about my script like Martin, which I wasn't, but I'm not going to do that bit with the 4AM and the flashlight. I'd love to be able to say I was nervous, but I wasn't. The only time I ever had anxiety it turned out to be asthma.” TryingWellsAbleBitsHoursFourAnxietyScriptsNervousPreciseOnly TimeNeatEnergeticAsthmaFlashlights Author:William Monahan
“I always write as I like to write, and I've been thinking about it because I honestly didn't realize how different my stuff is, until I started looking at other people's scripts as a producer.” PeopleThinkingWritingDifferentStuffRealizingScriptsHonestlyProducers Author:William Monahan
“I don't like scripts leaking. On the other hand, the more real attention a script gets, the better.” RealHandsAttentionScripts Author:William Monahan
“In reviewing films, people get quite liberal about saying "the script" this and "the script" that, when they've never read the script any more than they've read the latest report on Norwegian herring landings.” PeopleFilmScriptsReportsLandingNorwegiansHerring Author:William Monahan
“I think that scripts should be published, but they are published, really, because when you're a screenwriter, your stuff ends up in samizdat form on thousands and thousands of desks and shelves across the industry.” ThinkingShouldEndsFormStuffIndustryScriptsDesksShelvesScreenwriters Author:William Monahan
“Some reviewer might be out there saying, obviously Edge of Darkness didn't come off because of the script, blah blah blah, but everybody has read the script, except the journalist attacking it.” MightDarknessScriptsEdgesJournalistAttackingReviewersBlah Author:William Monahan
“All of a sudden I pulled up short and harked back to Ridley [Scott] holding up the script in Manhattan, at the St. Regis breakfast room, and saying, "It's very visual, isn't it," and realized it was the key to my whole life since then.” WholeRoomsKeysScriptsWhole LifeVisualsBreakfastManhattan Author:William Monahan
“Years ago I was going to play Chet Baker in another movie and I really felt drawn to that character and the script is good and I met with Robert and we seemed simpatico and we developed. But I had a real passion for that role and that brought me deep into that film 'cause I got the sense that Robert Budreau was going to really let me be creative inside this part.” YearsRealPlayCharacterFilmPassionFeltCausesRolesCreativeMetsYears AgoLet MeScriptsBe CreativeBakersChet BakerSimpatico Author:Ethan Hawke
“We have written a draft of the script in every calendar year since [2010]. Quite honestly. Our Deadpool file is... full, to capacity.” YearsWrittenCapacityScriptsHonestlyFilesCalendars Author:Paul Wernick
“Doctor Killebrew was also in the script at one point, and for creative reasons we ended up cutting him.” ReasonCreativeCuttingDoctorsScripts Author:Paul Wernick
“I haven't had a chance to pick up a good book in a long time, because I've been either reading scripts or learning them or writing them. And so, by the time the day is done, I usually just want to click on The Bachelor and fall asleep. But I gravitate toward biographies and things like that.” WantWritingLongBookDoneFallReadingChanceHavensLong TimePicksScriptsBiographiesGood BookClicksBachelors Author:Justin Theroux
“It's hard to get a great idea sometimes. When you get a good one and you have a good script, you want to keep shepherding it to make it happen.” WantIdeasSometimesHardHappensScriptsGreat IdeaMake It Happen Author:Chris Henchy