“I'm very, very excited because I'm just completing Episode 6 of Series 4 [of Peaky Blinders], which again I think is the best yet. And I'm loving it and it's not like work, it's not like a labor, I love doing it, and the boys are coming back and they're loving the scripts.” ThinkingBoysLaborSeriesScriptsExcitedWorking ItEpisodesComing BackCompletingBlinders Author:Steven Knight
“Well you know, the comic strip [Doctor Strange]... yeah, was an Asian man, in fact, a very ancient Tibetan man living on the top of a mountain. The film script that I was given wasn't an Asian man, so I wasn't asked to play an Asian man - I was asked to play an ancient Celtic person.” KnowsMenWellsPersonsPlayFactsFilmGivenStrangeMountainDoctorsYeahAncientScriptsComicAsianLiving OnTibetanCelticComic Strips Author:Tilda Swinton
“[Noah Hawley] just a fantastic writer. It's always about the script, it's always about the book; it always is. If it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage. That's what attracted me to him first and foremost.” IfsFirstsBookStagePagesScriptsFantastic Author:Lauren Shuler Donner
“I don't see how a person can be sensuous - unless they're just, you know, following some kind of script - without being vulnerable.” KnowsKindPersonsScriptsFollowingVulnerableSensuous Author:Rene Marie
“Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed.” IfsWritingIdeasSucceedJokesScriptsExperimentsNo Idea Author:Judd Apatow
“I feel guilty if I'm not reading books, but I read scripts of movies or things that I know I'm committed to that I'm going to do the project. I tell myself, "I'm going to read this script like six times," and I only read it the initial time.” IfsKnowsFeelsBookReadingSixProjectsScriptsCommittedGuiltyReading BooksInitials Author:Jim Gaffigan
“Why I'm so stimulated by [producing] is it becomes more proactive. Instead of waiting around for a script to come in, or some movie trying to go. You're waiting around always for that opportunity, which is great, but I like to be a little bit more proactive. I'm a very action-oriented guy - I'm a doer. The company really became this spearhead for that sort of attitude, and so that, to me, was the most exciting part of it.” TryingLittlesActionGuyOpportunityBitsWaitingAttitudeCompanyLittle BitExcitingScriptsDoersProactiveWaiting Around Author:Jeremy Renner
“Any script, even like The Founder, if it's something that I imagine myself playing this character or that character - any of the characters, basically - how do we flesh these characters out to be good enough to have amazing actors that come in that make it really difficult for them to say no? Even though I'm not right for any of those parts, that's just kind of how we go about it.” IfsKindEnoughCharacterActorsDifficultImagineScriptsBe GoodFleshGood EnoughFounders Author:Jeremy Renner
“You always have to speak good about the projects you do and you have to see the beauty in them. Sometimes you see them and you're happy with things, or maybe the process was nice and you enjoyed it, and you were happy with that. But when everything gathers - you liked the scripts from the very beginning, the directors, your friends - but then you see the result and you like it - it's beautiful.” SometimesBeautifulSpeakProcessResultsNiceDirectorsProjectsScriptsEnjoyedYou Like It Author:Miguel Angel Silvestre
“You hit the wall almost right when you get up to the top. If there's a female writer being suggested to do a rewrite on a script, it's always the big boys going, "Mm, let's go with [a man]..."” IfsMenBigsBoysWallFemaleScriptsGet UpFemale Writers Author:Jennifer Aniston
“I don't think it's unfair to have writers. I think if you're going to do a roast on television, as if you were doing a play or you were reading a script of a movie, you would have the best possible material. And those are the people who score, the people who are willing to listen to the roasting experts and then come out there and own that material.” PeopleIfsThinkingPlayReadingTelevisionWillingMaterialsScriptsExpertsScoreUnfairRoasting Author:Jeff Ross
“When I was 15 I lost a tooth and had an implant put in. Cut to 20 years later, I'm doing this part [Andy Bernard] and the script calls for my character to lose a tooth.” YearsCharacterLostLosesCuttingScriptsTeethImplants Author:Ed Helms
“I'm pretty sure no one's reading action scripts saying, 'This has got to be Ed Helms.'” ActionReadingScriptsHelm Author:Ed Helms
“We played around and improvised a ton [in The Hangover], and I think it's hard to say at this point what's what. Gosh, I wouldn't even know how to take a stab at it. The script was so good that we really didn't need to improvise very much, but I think we just found a lot of moments on the set. It's really cool when you get onto the set of a movie and you start shooting the scenes and you start to actually incorporate the environment.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsHardMomentsFoundKnow HowEnvironmentSceneScriptsShootingReally CoolHangover Author:Ed Helms
“The piano song that I do in the movie [The Hangover], it's a great example, that was never - that wasn't in the script.” SongExampleScriptsPianoHangover Author:Ed Helms
“I'm working on a script right about Civil War re-enactors who go back in time to the actual Civil War. It's kind of a big, crazy Back to the Future comedy. So, of course, it's the Civil War - I play the banjo. I was just having a conversation with one of the producers about some of the material and he was like, 'You know, we have to work in a scene where you play the banjo. And I was like I'll get behind that.” KnowsKindWarPlayBigsCoursesBehindsComedyCrazyMaterialsLike YouSceneConversationScriptsProducersCivil WarBack In TimeBanjosGo Back In Time Author:Ed Helms
“I don't think that any scene [in Pineapple Express] is word for word how you'd find it in the script. Some of it was much more loose than others. The last scene with me, Danny [McBride] and James [Franko] in the diner - there was never even a script for that scene. Usually we write something, but for that scene we literally wrote nothing.” ThinkingWritingLastsSceneScriptsDinersPineapples Author:Seth Rogen
“Often I don't read novels. The script is more important, that's the springboard to your imagination, really. Peripheral information can be interesting to read but you can't use it when it's not in the script.” ImportantUseImaginationInterestingNovelInformationScriptsSpringboards Author:John Hurt
“The director [Elfar Adalsteins] came to me through my agent and I had a read of the script [of the "Sailcloth]. I thought immediately this is someone who is writing for the cinema. Not having to go through the tedious business of taking something from literature and making that awful leap that is so difficult to make anyway, from literature to cinema. It's refreshing to be able to deal with a subject like that, to be written where the driving force is the image on screen and you don't need any words. The more that we can do that [in film], the better.” NeedsWritingAbleFilmLiteratureForceDifficultCan DoDealsWrittenSubjectsDirectorsScriptsScreensDrivingAwfulAgentsCinemaLeapTediousRefreshingDriving Force Author:John Hurt
“I thought ['Sailcloth'] was a terrific script. Elfar Adalsteins, the director, is bound to be a director we'll hear from, and the whole thing was really enjoyable.” WholeDirectorsBoundsScriptsTerrificEnjoyable Author:John Hurt
“I think a good script is a rare thing, and I think no matter who you are you have to fight for the good ones.” ThinkingMatterFightingWho You AreScriptsRare Things Author:Anna Kendrick
“Be yourself. Hillary Clinton, you have a great vision for our country. You know the policy, you have good judgment that springs from that. You're a strategic thinker, and you have a connection with the American people that springs from a lifetime of service and leadership to them, to America's working families. So, just go talk about that. Forget the script, forget everything else. Just be Hillary Clinton. Be yourself.” PeopleKnowsCountryAmericaForgetVisionPolicyJudgmentSpringConnectionsLifetimeClintonScriptsOur CountryBeing YourselfThinkerStrategicGood JudgmentForget EverythingGreat Vision Author:Nancy Pelosi
“["Where the Buffalo Roam" is] horrible pile of crap. [Bill] Murray did a good job. But it was a bad script. You can't beat a bad script. It was just a horrible movie. A cartoon. But Bill Murray did a good job. We actually wrote and shot several different endings and beginnings and they all got cut out in the end. It was disappointing.” DifferentEndsJobsCuttingBeatsShotsBillsScriptsHorribleCrapCartoonGood JobDisappointingBuffalo Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“I think [testing] has had a profoundly problematic impact on student learning. It must seem to students that their worth as individuals is equivalent to their test score. The stress the high stakes culture has on teachers is also highly negative and must surely impact students in a negative way. It also de-professionalizes teachers because it encourages them to be script readers, followers of rigid schedules, and to disregard the needs of the people they teach in favor of the scripts and schedules.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsSeemsCultureIndividualTeachTeacherStudentsReaderNegativeTestsStressImpactScriptsFavorsScoreFollowersStakesSchedulesTestingDisregardStudent LearningTest Scores Author:Carol Ann Tomlinson
“How can you sustain life? [Dan] Fogelman is magic, and I think the other scripts of his that I've read for this show specifically are as beautiful as the pilot script [of This Is Us]. And he said it in a meeting [regarding the stillbirth of a child], "You can't kill a baby every week." But I think the idea that you can have these impactful moments that are as heightened as the loss of a child - it's life.” ThinkingChildrenSaidIdeasMomentsShowsBeautifulLossMagicWeekBabyMeetingsScriptsPilotsLoss Of A ChildStillbirth Author:Milo Ventimiglia
“Obvious things like The Deer Hunter. After that happened, the scripts got better. Opportunities happened.” OpportunityHappenedScriptsObviousHuntersDeerObvious ThingsDeer Hunter Author:Christopher Walken
“I have boxes full of stuff. Most actors do have a trunk full of stuff, paintings or scripts. It never comes to anything.” ActorsStuffPaintingScriptsBoxesTrunks Author:Christopher Walken
“It takes a very long time to read a script. I'll look at a script, but there are so many scripts. I remember once being at the dentist, and the guy was doing my teeth and telling me about the screenplay he'd written and he said, "Will you read it?" And I said "Oh...okay." And it turns out that it was about a dentist!” LooksLongSaidRememberGuyTurnsWrittenLong TimeOkayScriptsTeethScreenplaysDentist Author:Christopher Walken
“It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.” MadeHardReadingScripts Author:Christopher Walken
“I have faith that a script is going to hit me like a ton of bricks, and when that happens, it's undeniable that I should choose the role.” ShouldHappensRolesScriptsHave FaithBricks Author:Tom Hanks
“There was a thing in the Andy Kaufman movie that Jim Carrey [Man On The Moon] about how he would do it. I didn't even see the movie. I read the script. But someone asked me, "Do you know what the best part of the Jim Carrey/Andy Kaufman movie is?" And I said, "me lee see ree bee." I just knew that would be the best part.” KnowsMenSaidWould BeMoonScriptsBeing The BestDo You KnowBees Author:Neal Brennan
“['John F. Kennedy] movie is based on a massive best-selling book, which is always helpful. And then the script was amazing and answered my question, "Why this? Why now?" And the "why now" is that it's 50 years since the assassination, and the country needs to have and will have a conversation about that. And the "why this" is the construct, which I think is sort of ingenious.” ThinkingNeedsYearsBookCountryConversationScriptsSellingHelpfulMassiveConstructsAssassinationIngeniousWhy NowSelling Books Author:Rob Lowe
“Stephen [King], who wrote the script himself, was on the set [of The Stand], and I was just so fortunate to get to know him. What a wonderful man. He may go down in history as the greatest American writer, pound for pound.” KnowsMenMayWonderfulKingsScriptsFortunatePoundsAmerican WriterWonderful Man Author:Rob Lowe
“It was a role [Dean Sanderson] I hadn't seen before, and yet it was very accessible and relatable at the same time. I read scripts that have one or the other, but I rarely read scripts that have both. And it was laugh-out-loud funny.” RolesLaughingScriptsLoudRelatableDeanLaugh Out LoudLaugh Out Loud Funny Author:Rob Lowe
“I think what we want to do is - when we choreograph, when we design choreography, we try to take it from a character standpoint first. Obviously you write a script and it's like, a Jason Bourne or a John Wick or something like that, you don't start choreographing double twisting wire moves and backflips, or doing the splits. You try to keep it so it fits the character, or the tone of the film.” ThinkingWantWritingTryingFirstsCharacterFilmMovingDesignFitScriptsToneSplitsWireStandpointJasonChoreographyBourneBackflips Author:Chad Stahelski
“Joe [Wright] reached out to me and sent me a treatment, and I said yes on the spot just from the treatment. Within six weeks, I was in Cape Town and there was a script [of Black Mirror episode 'Nosedive'], but I didn't realize until I received the full script that Rashida [Jones] and Michael [Schur] had worked on it. It's a particularly funny episode. Joe and I always looked at it as a satire; it has a lot of comedic elements to it.” SaidBlackRealizingWeekElementsSixTownsMirrorsScriptsSpotsTreatmentSatireEpisodesComedicCapesCape Town Author:Bryce Dallas Howard
“The other great thing about it, that seems to be the case in streaming, is that a lot more scripts are written before you start. Because they are planning on allowing it all up at one time, you have four or five scripts to read and an outline of where it's going to go. The writers aren't chasing their tails as much. You're able to see the beginning, middle and end of a storyline, and that is rare. Streaming allows that, in a way that network TV doesn't.” WayEndsSeemsAbleCasesFiveFourWrittenMiddleTvsScriptsPlanningGreat ThingsAllowingOne TimeTailsChasingOutlinesStreamingStorylineBeginning Middle And End Author:Tom Riley
“There's a few historical reasons for why git was considered complicated. One of them is that it was complicated. The people who started using git very early on in order to work on the kernel really had to learn a very rough set of scripts to make everything work. All the effort had been on making the core technology work and very little on making it easy or obvious.” PeopleLittlesReasonOrderEasyEffortTechnologyHistoricalScriptsObviousComplicatedCoreRoughKernel Author:Linus Torvalds
“I wrote another wrestling film script. And we finished the shooting [with Lloyd Phillips]. But Henry Winkler came out with his own wrestling film, which did poorly. So the studios passed on ours, and it never got released.” FilmScriptsStudiosFinishedShootingWrestling Author:John Ratzenberger
“I've been preparing [Chinese Zodiac] for seven years, spent seven years on writing the script, spent over a year on filming it.” WritingYearsSevenScriptsChinesePreparingSeven YearsZodiac Author:Jackie Chan
“I would get very frustrated reading scripts that were bilingual but maybe not bicultural.” ReadingScriptsFrustrated Author:Karla Souza
“I felt really strongly about this script [ Everybody Loves Somebody] because, like you said, it's a very specific way of life.” WaySaidFeltLike YouScripts Author:Karla Souza
“What I do feel with the different scripts that they give me where I feel like this is done for one of those reasons, I share my point of view. I don't just say, "No, thank you." I say, "I feel that this represents Latinos in a wrong way, in a bad way."” WayGivingFeelsDifferentReasonDoneViewsShareGive MeScriptsPoint Of ViewLatinoWrong WayJust Say No Author:Karla Souza
“I tell [scriptwriters] I think [their scripts] has too many stereotypes, that even the way they come in and out of Spanish doesn't really make sense, it feels forced.” ThinkingWayFeelsScriptsMake SenseStereotype Author:Karla Souza
“I also have to be careful of what it says about women. I get a lot of scripts that only talk about women's appearances and what they look like. I think we're tired of having to meet this standard and not being asked what our talents or abilities are.” ThinkingLooksAbilityTalentStandardsTiredScriptsCarefulAppearanceBe Careful Author:Karla Souza
“I also really pay attention to whether the script embodies a full female character or if they're just wanting a two-dimensional objectified woman. So I also have that aspect to take care of as well.” IfsWellsTwoCharacterCarePayAttentionFemaleAspectScriptsTake CarePay AttentionFemale Characters Author:Karla Souza
“I told my friend - we were working on a movie together - and he gave me a script and asked me to give him notes. And they were all male characters, and I said, "You know what would make this character more interesting?" And he asked what - and it's this road trip between three guys, basically, one older man, one 30-year-old and a 13-year-old mechanic. And I said, "If you make the 13-year-old a girl, and you make her an Indian-American mechanic." And he said, "What do you mean?" And I said, "Yeah, don't change anything in the script about him, and just make it a her."” IfsKnowsMenGivingYearsMeanSaidCharacterTogetherGuyGirlThreeInterestingMy FriendsYeahNotesMalesScriptsIndianMechanicDon't ChangeAmerican IndianRoad TripOlder Man Author:Karla Souza
“When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this kid in the wheelchair, and then the quarterback comes along and has a heart of gold and takes him out of a Porta Potty. That's too often what I see in media, that the characters with disabilities are there to make other people seem like heroes for treating the character with a disability with respect. Those are the kinds of roles that are out there.” PeopleHeartKindWholeCharacterSeemsKidsSchoolRolesMediaHeroHigh SchoolGoldScriptsDisabilityPremisesQuarterbackGleeWheelchairsPottyHeart Of Gold Author:Zach Anner
“These days, most of my interactions with young people are centered on the poetry or theater classes I teach, so the students I know are reading contemporary poets (they love Willie Perdomo) and scripts (No Child, by Nilaja Sun and Twilight by Anna Deavere Smith). I don't know their reading habits outside of our class, but I believe that they enjoy stories that they can relate to, learn from, be challenged by - you know, the usual good writing that every reader craves.” PeopleKnowsWritingBelieveChildrenStoriesYoungReadingI BelieveEnjoyClassTeachSunStudentsPoetReaderHabitTheaterScriptsContemporaryRelateThese DaysUsualInteractionTwilightCraveGood WritingAnnaReading Habits Author:Renee Watson
“For me, my storyline [in Big Little Lies] is very complicated and nuanced. [The script] was so beautifully written. It was very, very easy to play. ... I think one of the scenes is almost eight minutes.” ThinkingLittlesPlayBigsLyingEasyWrittenMinutesSceneScriptsComplicatedEightStoryline Author:Nicole Kidman