“Because [writers] Dan Weiss and David Benioff have done such a great job in adapting them, that's what we work with. It serves no purpose to anybody for actors to come onto a set with a well-thumbed copy of the source material and start querying why this or that line has been left out of the script. It's probably been left out for a good reason.” WellsHas BeensReasonDoneJobsPurposeActorsLeftLinesMaterialsSourceScriptsCopiesLeft OutGreat JobAdapting Author:Charles Dance
“I really took it in-house. The Constantine character has a kind of flesh-and-blood practical look at things that would seem, other people would use the word, occult or spiritual. But here, demons are real. So for me it was more taking it from the film itself. I didn't really need to go outside the piece itself to inform me because the perspective on it, what the character does, was provided by the script.” PeopleNeedsLooksKindDoeRealCharacterUseSeemsFilmSpiritualHousePiecesBloodPerspectiveScriptsFleshPracticalsDemonOccultFlesh And BloodConstantine Author:Keanu Reeves
“Well, you're in a theater and it's 24 shots a second, your face, your body, your voice, and it's your craft, the way you earn your living, and it's indelible. It's not like writing a script - I write as well - I can't do another draft, it's done.” WayWritingWellsI CanDoneBodyFacesVoiceShotsTheaterScriptsYour BodyCraftsYour FaceIndelible Author:William Mapother
“I knew [Jesse Owens'] name, but I really didn't remember what it is he had done, so I felt like I had to get refreshed. So I read the script and I realized like, wow, this is an incredible human being. I told my manager, however I had to do it, let me see the director; I got to play him.” HumansDonePlayRememberNamesFeltHuman BeingsDirectorsLet MeIncrediblesScriptsI RealizedManagersWow Author:Stephan James
“Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material.” KindReadingMaterialsTypeScriptsBones Author:Karen Allen
“I think that there is a real beauty to the live aspect of the theater, and the working with a director for a month on a script in the isolation of a room and really deeply delving into who are these people, what is the story we're telling, how do we want to tell it?” PeopleThinkingWantRealStoriesRoomsMonthsDirectorsAspectTheaterScriptsIsolationReal BeautyReally DeepDelving Author:Karen Allen
“When I read a film script, I kind of see it in my head and I see the moments that shape what I understand the character to be. There's very little time for rehearsal.” KindLittlesMomentsCharacterFilmShapesScriptsRehearsalLittle Time Author:Karen Allen
“You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.” PeopleStoriesScriptsGood Story Author:Thomas Jane
“I just passed on some a script that I was sent, because I said, "I haven't yet played the person staying home, the one that says, 'Good luck, honey,' or whatever." And so that's what I look for. Therefore, by virtue of that exclusion, I'm always trying to find roles that are challenging.” TryingLooksPersonsSaidHomeChallengesRolesVirtueHavensLuckScriptsStayingHoneyGood LuckAlways TryingExclusion Author:Geena Davis
“My scripts are always filled with notes. I like to just analyze everything from the point of view of the whole picture, of the movie, my whole picture.” WholeViewsFilledNotesScriptsPoint Of ViewWhole Picture Author:Geena Davis
“We've done things that are faster at times, but it's definitely different when we direct all the episodes because it's like we have to write them all, then shoot them all, then edit them all. So we have to just get ahead on those scripts basically.” WritingDifferentDoneDirectScriptsFasterEpisodesEditsGet Ahead Author:Mark Duplass
“I was at home waiting for projects. I was on Parenthood and there was one season left, and I was thinking, "What's next?" I'm at this age where I'm trying to write my own script, and they sent this over and I decided to put myself on tape.” ThinkingWritingTryingHomeAgeNextLeftWaitingMy OwnProjectsDecidedSeasonsScriptsParenthoodTape Author:Ray Romano
“Mark and jay Duplass really like to improvise. Even if we beg them to go back to the script, they invariably ask us to go "off the rails," as they like to call it. It's just the way they work. You get a full written script. And it's really, really, really good, so that's why it's kind of peculiar that they always want you to improvise, because if I wrote something that good, I would want everyone to stick to the dialogue that was written.” IfsWayWantKindAsksWrittenMarkSticksScriptsDialoguePeculiarRail Author:Amanda Peet
“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
“I'm running out of time, and a Western is America's answer to a Greek tragedy, so that's what we did. [Kiefer] hired Brad [Mirman] to write the script and he had the ideas, and then he and I did stuff on the script to make it a little cleaner to ourselves. And then, we played it. We were just actors working together, and our DNA must have informed it somehow. Certainly, we came out of it purified a little bit.” WritingLittlesIdeasRunningTogetherAmericaActorsStuffBitsAnswersLittle BitTragedyWesternScriptsGreekWorking TogetherDnaCleanersBradGreek TragedyRunning Out Of Time Author:Donald Sutherland
“So "Embrace Of The Serpent" is told from the points of view and in the languages of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon. He [Guerra] went there before shooting began, with a script written mostly in Spanish.” LanguageViewsWrittenEmbraceScriptsPoint Of ViewShootingIndigenousAmazonSerpentIndigenous People Author:Tom Cole
“We translated the script together with them. And during the process of translation, they rewrote the scripts. They put a lot into it. They made it their own. There are names of plants or chants or certain rites and everything that you cannot come across it in a movie. You know, you cannot learn about them casually. So the film doesn't have value in the ethnographical, anthropological. It's fiction.” KnowsMadeTogetherFilmCertainValuesNamesProcessFictionPlantScriptsMade ItTranslationsRite Author:Ciro Guerra
“Well, what we do is we have a script, of course. But for us, writing is also like storyboarding. It's drawing. And so we will cut all of those drawings together with music, sound effects and dialogue. And we screen this kind of stick-figure version of the film.” WritingWellsKindTogetherFilmCoursesSoundCuttingEffectsFiguresSticksScriptsScreensDrawingDialogueVersionsSound EffectsStoryboarding Author:Pete Docter
“The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.” WayWritingTryingFirstsLooksSometimesApproachFirst TimeScriptsArchetype Author:Sarah Gadon
“Everybody knows Aaron Sorkin's scripts. There's a huge amount of lines. There's a huge amount of interchange. You gotta do a lot of learning to be able to get it up to pace.” KnowsAbleLinesHugeAmountScriptsPaceInterchange Author:Danny Boyle
“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
“I don’t have tons of scripts where I don’t know what to choose and I’m trying to calculate. It’s either I read something and I have an impulse to do it, or in meeting someone, I want to work with them, but it’s always been very obvious.” KnowsWantTryingMeetingsScriptsObviousImpulseMeeting Someone Author:Charlotte Gainsbourg
“I end up improvising in almost everything to some degree, 'cause it's often necessary on movies. The script is one thing, and it's this kind of theory of what you're going to do, and then you get there on the day and you realize, "Oh, the script is not appropriate to this room, the door's over here."” KindEndsCausesRealizingRoomsDoorsOne ThingTheoryDegreesScriptsAppropriateImprovising Author:John C. Reilly
“I don't want to take all the time. I just want to do what you wrote and let me go from there. I don't want to miss something. You know, I'm not really a writer per se, but I can write. But I can't put a script together like they can.” KnowsWantWritingI CanTogetherMissingLet MeScriptsLet Me Go Author:Jackee Harry
“In the beginning this was just an idea. Then it was a short story. Then it was a script. Each step was pretty exciting to see people come on board to support the project. It's gratifying to know that more people are seeing my work in this form than my work as a playwright. And it's been fun to hear people's response to seeing it. I've been having some deep conversations with strangers and friends about how much it has made them think about slavery and its impact today.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMadeIdeasStoriesTodayFormFunStepsSupportSeeingConversationProjectsExcitingSlaveryImpactResponseScriptsStrangerBoardsShort StoryPlaywrightStrangers And Friends Author:Steven C. Harper
“In fact, now for whatever reason, if we're recording in the same room, I get a little distracted because I'm watching the actor instead of listening to the actor. The way we do it now, they're on the phone, and we're sitting here with scripts in front of us taking notes seriously and marking takes and doing some adlibs. I can really focus on the words and not the surroundings.” IfsWayLittlesI CanReasonFactsActorsRoomsFocusFrontsListeningSittingNotesScriptsPhonesSurroundingsDistracted Author:Adam Reed
“I think probably the best example was the year Jack Palance dropped down and gave us push-ups when he accepted his award for supporting actor. Then we got to throw away a lot of the script because we just did Jack Palance jokes, because it was just too delicious, watching this old man carry on like that.” ThinkingMenYearsActorsExampleJokesDown AndScriptsAcceptedOld ManAwardsDeliciousPush UpsSupporting Actors Author:Bruce Vilanch
“Really, I'm a neurotic perfectionist. Every single word in the script is the one that I want.” WantScriptsNeuroticPerfectionistSingle Word Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
“I really did feel like I was surrounded by family members. I didn't have a dad, and I remember there were all these guys - in the old days, there were no women, except a makeup artist or, occasionally, a script supervisor. So there were just guys who taught me how to, you know, whittle wood, or how to pull focus, and what the camera was doing. And if I was being bratty, they'd sit me down and tell me. There were lots of rules about not being late and making sure that you didn't spill anything. So it felt a little bit like I was in a family.” IfsKnowsFeelsLittlesRememberArtistGuyFeltBitsFocusTaughtDadMembersLateLittle BitDown AndCamerasScriptsWoodsMakeupOld DaysSpillsFamily MembersSupervisorsMakeup Artist Author:Jodie Foster
“I come in as an actor, having read through the script a few times, made a couple of character-choices, thinking I'm going to be working on it during rehearsals. It's very different. It takes a while we're always like dogs sniffing each other's asses.” ThinkingMadeDifferentCharacterChoicesActorsDogCoupleScriptsAssRehearsalSniffing Author:Jason Graae
“My dream roles haven't been written yet. My favorite thing to do is to dive into the uncharted territories of a new script that's untainted by someone else's idea of the character.” IdeasCharacterDreamRolesWrittenHavensMy FavoriteScriptsThings To DoTerritoryFavorites ThingsUnchartedUncharted Territory Author:Erica Schroeder
“I have always been interested in theatre and after reading the script for THE INFLICTION OF CRUELTY, I thought that being part of this show and the Fringe would be a great experience.” ShowsWould BeReadingScriptsTheatreCrueltyFringeGreat ExperiencesInfliction Author:Pawel Szajda
“What I ended up doing was kind of crafting an idea for a story, presenting it to a writer - a dear friend of mine, Brad Mirman - and he ended up writing a beautiful script. I should've done that a lot earlier.” ShouldWritingKindIdeasDoneStoriesBeautifulMinesDearScriptsPresentingDear FriendBrad Author:Kiefer Sutherland
“My music doesn't exist in a vacuum; there's a script and there's an actor and it's about to come together.” TogetherActorsScriptsVacuums Author:Ayshay
“One reads many scripts, and some of them are good and some of them are not, but every now and then, one really grabs you. You simply can't put it down.” ScriptsNow And Then Author:Gavin Hood
“At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.” WritingEndsNovelScriptsThe End Of The Day Author:Louis Garrel
“Nira Park, who is my longtime producer and friend - I've know her since we did Spaced, the TV show - she gave me this script the last day of filming The World's End. She said, "Take a look at this. It's filming in London next year, and you might like to look at Jack." I trust Nira implicitly.” KnowsWorldYearsLooksSaidEndsShowsMightLastsNextTvsScriptsLondonProducersParksTv ShowsNext YearLast Day Author:Simon Pegg
“When I read a script, I am already in the movie with my music, and I can dive into a world that I haven't seen before.” WorldI CanHavensScripts Author:Volker Bertelmann
“When I read the script [of Good Kill], it read like a science fiction film. And Andrew [writer/director Andrew Niccol] is known for sci-fi. But when I spoke to him, he said this picture was 100% factual, which blew my mind. I realized then how little I knew about the drone program. And I felt that, if I knew so little about it, there must be others who should be educated about what's going on.” IfsShouldMindLittlesSaidFilmFeltFictionKnownDirectorsProgramScience FictionScriptsI RealizedEducatedSpokesSci FiAndrewDronesFactual Author:Zoe Kravitz
“It kind of varies. I don’t have a method yet. It depends on the script and the character I think I need. I’ve worked with acting coaches, researched roles, and channeled different parts of myself. It’s on a case-by-case for me, right now.” ThinkingNeedsKindDifferentCharacterActingRolesCasesDependsRight NowMethodScriptsCoachesVary Author:Zoe Kravitz
“I really like the "two is better than three" line. People ask me is this drama or comedy? I just think the more colors you have to a film the better. The more genres, the more people will like it. I like relating to the whole general speaking public. The script itself is 99 pages but the novel it is based on is 600. I had to leave a lot of stuff out of the script. I had a limitation of what I could present on the big screen.” PeopleThinkingTwoWholeBigsFilmThreeAsksStuffLinesNovelComedyColorDramaPagesScriptsScreensLimitationGenreAsk MeBig Screen Author:Tommy Wiseau
“I feel lucky that Viceland wanted to make it, and I'm producing more than one film with LGBT characters and stories and it's because it's what I'm interested in. I'm not going to read a script and say, 'They're not gay, I'm not going to do it,' but I am interested in playing more gay people, because I've only played one gay person, and I've done a fair amount of movies, and I am interested in those stories. So for me, there's no should-I-or-shouldn't-I. It all feels natural.” PeopleFeelsShouldPersonsDoneCharacterStoriesWantedFilmNaturalAmountGayLuckyFairsScriptsLgbtShould IGay People Author:Ellen Page
“I hadn't read or heard a lot about [Tom] Wolfe until I read this script, and in that way I think it was really clever to write a piece about him instead of Max Perkins,[Ernest] Hemingway, [John] Fitzgerald, or others that people have strong opinions of already.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingStrongOpinionPiecesHeardScriptsCleverTomsMaxStrong OpinionsReally Clever Author:Jude Law
“For years I've wanted to work with this guy, so to actually write at the top of my scripts "Empress, Script by Mark Millar, Art by Stuart Immonen" is an absolute pleasure.” WritingYearsArtWantedGuyPleasureMarkAbsolutesScriptsThis GuyEmpresses Author:Mark Millar
“I've been doing It's Aways Sunny for 12 years, and so I have this cable sensibility. When I read the Grinder script, I was like "this is edgy," which is great, but in a different way from Arrested Development. I feel like the characters are a little more relatable, so maybe that's the difference.” WayFeelsYearsLittlesDifferentCharacterDifferencesDevelopmentScriptsDifferent WaysSensibilityCablesRelatableArrestedSunnyEdgyGrinder Author:Mary Elizabeth Ellis
“You don't really work together with Clint Eastwood. I mean, he takes the script and he shoots it - and he shoots it very faithfully.” MeanTogetherScriptsWorking Together Author:Peter Morgan
“I haven't done it by myself at all. I've been surrounded by a really, really good crew of all ages. I think it's important to have a good age range in the crew so that some of us have experienced that period, or something close to that. But the script, of course, is really inspiring and you just have to trust that. Sometimes on film a glass can be as big as a car, so if the details are right, then they take up as much space on screen as the streets that we didn't have a chance to show as London really has changed since then.” IfsThinkingImportantSometimesDoneShowsBigsAgeFilmCoursesChanceSpaceStreetsCarHavensChangedPeriodsScriptsGlassesDetailsLondonScreensRangeCrewReally Inspiring Author:Lone Scherfig
“One of the fascinating things about early writing on slates, on papyrus, even on early handwritten books, is for instance, there were no space between the words. People just wrote in continuous script.” PeopleWritingBookSpaceScriptsInstanceFascinatingSpace BetweenSlatePapyrus Author:Nicholas G. Carr
“I'm one of those actors where usually I'll read a script, and then I'll have a flurry of notes. I'll ask a hundred questions about things, and really get in there and examine it.” ActorsAsksHundredNotesScripts Author:Clive Owen
“"Stuffed and Unstrung" started as a workshop, actually, classes within our company. We found that our puppeteers were not ad libbing as well as traditionally, Jim Henson Company puppeteers have. We're sort of famous for going off script a little bit and ad libbing.” WellsLittlesFoundBitsCompanyClassLittle BitScriptsAdsWorkshopsPuppeteer Author:Brian Henson