“I don't really sit in the sun I have a flagstone terrace surrounding the swimming pool and just carrying the script from the office to the living room gives me an instant suntan.” GivingRoomsSunOfficeGive MeScriptsInstantSwimmingPoolLiving RoomSwimming PoolTerrace Author:Lester Persky
“The secret is to get a good cinematographer and a very good assistant director. If you get those and stay out of their way, and have good actresses, the script doesn't even have to be that extraordinary.” IfsWaySecretDirectorsExtraordinaryVery GoodScriptsActressesAssistantsCinematographers Author:Lester Persky
“To be able to make a living, I went into television. Not necessarily planned from the beginning, since I was more familiar with features, and had developed a few scripts.” AbleTelevisionScriptsFamiliarFeatures Author:Alfons Adetuyi
“When I was in film school at USC, I wrote my thesis script about a woman on Wall Street - specifically a woman who used to work at Morgan Stanley, sort of based on her life. Through that process, I did some research.” SchoolFilmUsedProcessStreetsWallResearchScriptsThesisStanleyFilm SchoolUsc Author:Meera Menon
“had two smaller scripts that I had written with full black casts. And people loved the scripts, but nobody would fund them. Those roles and stories are out there. But unless you have the money to finance movies on your own, you're beholden to others, and that is a very big limiting factor.” PeopleTwoStoriesBigsBlackRolesWrittenScriptsCastsFactorsFinanceFund Author:Joe Robert Cole
“Truthfully, in the beginning [of MacGyver] this could have gone either way, and as it turned out there was a version that was done wrong, which I'm not even going to get into. It was a pretty good idea and I liked where it was going, but then we got a chance to restart with Peter Lenkov [as executive producer/showrunner], who brought his vision to it. I remember reading his pilot script and it was just so exciting that I started hopping around my room.” WayIdeasDoneRememberReadingChanceRoomsVisionGoneExcitingScriptsVersionsProducersExecutivesGood IdeasPilotsPeterHoppingMacgyver Author:Lucas Till
“There is no question that, in 1980, Ronald Reagan had been portrayed as a war-monger, somebody who couldn't do anything off a script. And the one debate with President Jimmy Carter, he stood toe-to-toe and reassured people that he wasn't bound and determined to start World War III on the spot and could make a coherent statement.” PeopleWorldWarPresidentBoundsScriptsDeterminedDebateStatementsSpotsWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War IToesJimmyCarterPresident Jimmy Carter Author:Mark Shields
“I was really not familiar at all with Edward Snowden. I like to get that right out of the way and really learned most of what I know from Oliver's [Stones] script.” KnowsWayStonesScriptsFamiliarSnowden Author:Melissa Leo
“You have this certain about of responsibility to play a fictitious character and you have a script that's guiding you and the other information of the custom department's choices, and the set department, "Where are you," and all those other pieces of information but you have to cull from your imagination the answer to all the unasked questions. And with a real person, there's someone to get that information from, perhaps.” PersonsRealPlayCharacterCertainChoicesImaginationAnswersResponsibilityPiecesInformationScriptsDepartmentCustomsReal Person Author:Melissa Leo
“If you cast really funny, talented people and let them do what they need to do, they're going to hit a home run for you without a script.” PeopleIfsNeedsHomeRunningScriptsCastsHome Run Author:Justin Roiland
“In a couple of years I think it [sequel to What We Do] will come out as a script and we'll shoot that. Or maybe it will just come out as some t-shirts.” ThinkingYearsCoupleScriptsShirtsT ShirtSequels Author:Taika Waititi
“I wrote a couple of scripts on spec that didn't get made but got some attention, and I then got offers to write professionally.” WritingMadeAttentionCoupleOffersScriptsSpecs Author:Curtis Hanson
“Roger [Corman] didn't actually hire me, though. I was hired by AIP [American International Pictures], the studio that made the picture, which was Sam Arkoff and Jim Nicholson. It was a great learning experience for me, because not only did I work on the script, but they hired me back to go on location when they were making the movie, to write new scenes and so forth.” WritingMadeGoes OnSceneInternationalScriptsStudiosLocationRogerLearning ExperienceNicholson Author:Curtis Hanson
“I had written the script a few years earlier for Paramount, then later got hired with Sam [Fuller] to write an entirely new script that he was going to direct. And that was one of the great thrills of my professional life.” WritingYearsWrittenDirectScriptsParamountProfessional Life Author:Curtis Hanson
“Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.'” WantSawsFourSafePagesScriptsDuesHeyBossBlogs Author:Mindy Kaling
“I felt really comfortable [on The Maze Runner]. From day one, I loved the script and the story, and I thought it could be something really cool and interesting and original, in this generation of regurgitated projects and sequels and stuff, so I'm proud to be part of it.” StoriesFeltStuffInterestingGenerationsProudComfortableProjectsOriginalsScriptsRunnersReally CoolSequelsThis GenerationMazesMaze Runner Author:Dylan O'Brien
“What happens in animation is that you don't really start the story until you're boarding it, which usually means that you've gotta go through some sort of a script phase. And you can get caught in the doldrums there, overdeveloping that, when you don't really know what you have until you put it up in storyboards.” KnowsMeanStoriesHappensScriptsCaughtPhasesAnimationDoldrums Author:Doug Sweetland
“Sometimes during a show or a film, while you're shooting it, you'll think, "This is great, it's going to be fantastic, the script is incredible, and the actors are great, and everything is working out brilliantly." And then you see it, and you kind of go, "Oh god, it's not as good as I thought it was," and it doesn't get an audience to watch it. It only does a couple of festivals and then dies and whatever.” ThinkingKindDoeSometimesShowsFilmDiesActorsWatchesAudienceCoupleIncrediblesScriptsWork OutFantasticShootingFestivals Author:Aidan Turner
“When you're younger, you get scripts that you are too young for and now I'm getting scripts, which I think, "I'm too old for this character." They can always shift things around to make it work and make the ages work. But I'm definitely getting more complex and interesting roles and less what you would expect. So I can experiment more and have a bit more freedom when I'm putting things on tape.” ThinkingI CanCharacterAgeYoungBitsInterestingRolesComplexesScriptsExperimentsTape Author:Asa Butterfield
“I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without that, and that's cool, but I like to look at the art.” PeopleKnowsWritingLooksArtArtistCan DoScripts Author:Gerard Way
“Normally, filmmakers would just write a script and cast people to act as certain characters in the story. But in my way of doing things, I have the actors in my mind already, so I'm trying to borrow something that's unique to them. The characters have a very natural connection to the actors themselves.” PeopleWayWritingTryingMindCharacterStoriesCertainActorsNaturalUniqueConnectionsScriptsCastsMy WayFilmmaker Author:Wong Kar-wai
“What first attracted me to doing Swiss Army Man was just how mental it was - how insane and wonderful and original the script was.” MenFirstsWonderfulArmyOriginalsScriptsInsaneSwiss Author:Daniel Radcliffe
“For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.” PeriodsScriptsDestructiveRehearsal Author:Peter Stone
“I was approached by the filmmakers. I didn't know much about the project ["Selling Isobel"], and the more we talked, the more they started to confide in me. I read the script and thought it was really interesting, and then a week later I discovered that this wasn't just any old script, this was actually Frida's [Farell] story and she was trusting me to tell it. I felt very privileged.” KnowsStoriesFeltInterestingWeekProjectsScriptsSellingFilmmakerPrivilegedReally InterestingFrida Author:Rudolf Buitendach
“There are those who make music and movies in a linear way: They plan them, they have a script. Of course, you have to have a script sometimes, but that alone isn't enough.” WaySometimesEnoughCoursesPlansScriptsLinear Author:Ry Cooder
“I've never played a character that is just beautiful, but sometimes you can read scripts that sound so shallow, like women are objects. I've never done something like that, though.” SometimesDoneCharacterBeautifulSoundObjectsScriptsShallow Author:Eva Green
“There's the acting side of it so you work with a coach. Dissect a script. If it's a character, then obviously a character study. Just depends on if there is training needed.” IfsCharacterSidesActingStudyDependsNeededTrainingScriptsCoaches Author:Scott Eastwood
“When you pick up a script you want to do you generally have a theme you're trying to work with, and then it expands from that.” WantTryingPicksScriptsTheme Author:Michael Caton-Jones
“When you're casting, you get a page or two - just enough to do the scene. Now that you're in the world, you get the whole script.” WorldTwoEnoughWholeScenePagesScriptsCasting Author:Mike Colter
“Usually when you start the characters, the first thing is the script. Your design work is about telling the story. It's later that casting comes into play, but it's a huge component.” FirstsPlayCharacterStoriesDesignHugeScriptsCastingComponentsDesign Work Author:Alexandra Byrne
“I never read a book if I'm auditioning for a film based on it. I like to stick to the script only because that's exactly what I have to play.” IfsBookPlayFilmSticksScripts Author:Sophie Nelisse
“It just so happened that J.C.[Chandor] was a first-time feature director, and his script was exactly the kind of thing we were looking for.” FirstsKindHappenedDirectorsFirst TimeScriptsFeatures Author:Zachary Quinto
“When I wrote the script [of "Aquarius"], it seemed to hold people's interest.” PeopleInterestScriptsAquarius Author:Sonia Braga
“The reaction I got from Sônia [Braga] in less than 48 hours after I sent her the script [Aquarius] was so genuine that it left me stunned. Often when you show people scripts, you get polite, absent-minded reactions, as well as exclamations of "What the f - k is this?".” PeopleWellsShowsLeftHoursScriptsGenuineReactionsPoliteAbsentStunnedExclamationAquariusAbsent Minded48 Hours Author:Sonia Braga
“When Sônia [Braga] talked about the script in detail, it was as if she had seen the film [Aquarius] last night, even though it hadn't existed yet. It was a completely bulls - t-less reaction, so I knew it had to be her, and she has been great ever since.” IfsHas BeensLastsFilmNightScriptsDetailsReactionsLast NightBullsAquarius Author:Sonia Braga
“I live in New York, and Clara lives in Recife. The character is Brazilian, and as I read the script, I felt like Kleber [Mendonca] had been spying on me in order to create this role [in Aquarius]. Clara and I have different backgrounds. I come from an intuitive world, and she's an academic, but when we got together, we really became one. There are many times when I'm watching the film where Clara will say something, and I will find myself agreeing with her. It was the first time that I had this weird sensation that the character I played is so me, but yet it's so her.” WorldFirstsDifferentCharacterTogetherFilmOrderFeltRolesNew YorkFirst TimeScriptsBackgroundsSensationsAcademicIntuitiveDifferent BackgroundsAquariusClara Author:Sonia Braga
“As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, "Yeah, sure, I'll give it a shot!" It was never something I had really put that much thought into. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script of the [Ordinary World] and said, "Absolutely!"” IfsWorldGivingSaidWantedOrdinaryShotsYeahScriptsAgentsKirkOrdinary World Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“There were a couple of times, leading up to shooting [Ordinary World], where I was like, "Oh, my god, what did I get myself into? Hopefully, I don't ruin this guy's precious script." And then, after a couple of days of shooting, I started getting in the groove of it and it was really fun. I love being a rookie at stuff. It makes it feel vital. I love doing things I've never done before, and I love making stuff.” WorldFeelsDoneGuyFunStuffLove IsCoupleOrdinaryScriptsRuinsHopefullyShootingThis GuyLove MakingGrooveRookiesOrdinary World Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing. We'd go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.” ImportantAbleTogetherActorsLanguageEasyShotsScriptsRehearsingKirk Author:Billie Joe Armstrong
“[Captain Fantastic] it's a great story. It's one of the better scripts I've read, ever, as far as being great from beginning to end. It handles a variety of characters. You have six children who all stand on their own, they're all individuals. And it touches on a very real issue, which is the lack of cohesion and communication in America right now.” ChildrenRealEndsCharacterStoriesAmericaIndividualIssuesCommunicationRight NowSixScriptsHandleVarietyFantasticCaptainsCohesion Author:Viggo Mortensen
“I'm sent a script. I read the script. If I love it, I want to do it. And that's it I don't care who's in it, how much money is behind it, really to an extent who's directing it.” IfsWantCareBehindsScriptsDon't CareI Don't Care Author:Ewan McGregor
“I did do a presentation pilot with Jesse Eisenberg and he's wonderful. He's such a great writer. He directed me and he wrote these wonderful scripts and we're waiting to hear if marketers and advertisers think that an audience wants to look at a bad mom and her 10-year-old son in a show.” IfsThinkingWantYearsLooksShowsWaitingAudienceWonderfulSonMomScriptsPilotsPresentationGreat WritersMarketersAdvertisersBad Mom Author:Parker Posey
“I actually had that conversation with [Channel 4 Chief Creative Officer] Jay Hunt. We were at a bit of a crisis point. I'd written a totally different script - about war, basically - that got rejected at the last minute for various reasons. The whole of the series was in doubt. I said, "Well, there is one other idea ["National Anthem"]."” WellsSaidIdeasDifferentWarReasonWholeLastsBitsCreativeDoubtWrittenMinutesConversationCrisisSeriesScriptsVariousChiefsOfficersRejectedHuntsAnthemLast MinuteNational Anthem Author:Charlie Brooker
“I didn't read the script [ Rules Don't Apply ] for a couple years. It basically amounted to this kind of apprenticeship with Warren [Beatty]: conversations and learning about his whole background in the film industry and his life.” YearsKindWholeFilmIndustryCoupleConversationScriptsBackgroundsFilm IndustryApprenticeshipBeatty Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“Somebody comes to your house. You know they're coming, so it's not a surprise. And they give you an envelope that has your scenes in it. And they sit in the car outside for a half an hour while you read your scenes, then they ring your doorbell and you give your scenes back. Then you shoot the movie a few weeks later or something. The next time you see your scenes is the night before you start shooting. I never read the script [Blue Jasmine], so I didn't really know what it was about.” KnowsGivingNightNextHouseHoursHalfWeekCarSceneBlueSurpriseScriptsRingsShootingNext TimeEnvelopesJasmine Author:Alden Ehrenreich