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“It's part of developing the whole state of how cinema is; everyone is looking out and engaged rather than it being just a financial thing or sitting back, waiting for scripts to turn up.”

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Author:Ben Wheatley

“Sometimes my scripts get so dissolved, and they're so different from when I wrote them originally, that I find it hard to find what I wrote in it.”

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Author:Ben Wheatley

“I thought that the R&B / Hip-Hop world really hasn't been explored on film and there's some issues that we're going through right now. It's in a very dangerous place , for women especially, both in terms of the songs that men are singing about. You know, R&B used to be a safe place for women and now it just seems like the songs coming out are so angry but also what women have to come out with. You have to get noticed. You see, it's like a script to follow. You come out hyper sexualized but what happens when you can't pull back from that. That's not authentic to yourself.”

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Author:Gina Prince-Bythewood

“The difference between me and Tiny Lister is that he has never been the greatest actor, he hasn't been able to do a lot of big talking parts in movies, or even... he kind of has one emotion. He never looks at his career as an obstacle, he only looks at the positives. He's done... he knows, he has an opportunity. I mean, you see in a script, "Tiny Lister" type, you know you've made your mark. I mean on Friday After Next, that's what everyone expected me to be the new Tiny because it was that sort of part to fill that role, but if you look at the movie, there was a lot more there.”

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Author:Terry Crews

“I felt, if I never did anything in my life but read scripts and synopsize them, I would be happy.”

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Author:Sherry Lansing

“I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.”

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Author:Ben Kingsley

“Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.”

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Author:Greg Kinnear

“Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.”

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Author:Talib Kweli

“I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.”

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Author:Christian Bale

“It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.”

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Author:Jessica Lange

“The worst is when I talk myself into something. Sometimes you take things because you want to work with a certain actor, or you want to work with a director, even if the script or the part's not that great.”

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Author:Jessica Lange

“Certain movies like 'Wag The Dog,' we used improv on every scene that we did. Pretty much, we would shoot from the script and then some stuff that we came up with in rehearsal, and then we'd have at least one or two takes where we completely went off the script and just flew by the seat of our pants.”

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Author:Denis Leary

“When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write...”

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Author:Ang Lee

“When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.”

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Author:Ang Lee

“I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.”

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Author:Don Adams

“I think I remember from the offset I said, 'I've visited this territory. This isn't for me.' And then I read the script and I said, 'You know, this is completely something different. This is a whole new life.'”

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Author:Jared Leto

“Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I’ve done with Almodóvar.”

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Author:Antonio Banderas

“It's an unfair comparison because when things are developed in the UK, they're developed at script stage only.”

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Author:Damian Lewis

“I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.”

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Author:Eva Longoria

“To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times.”

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Author:David Lynch

“Most of my movies are indies. The best scripts I can find are independent films. But I love big-budget movies, I love craft services!”

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Author:Anthony Mackie

“A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.”

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Author:David Mamet

“I was a novelist first. But in the mid 80s, I did work in television for ten years. And yes, that was frequently the reaction to my scripts. People would say, you know, George, this is great. We love it, a terrific script, but it would cost five times our budget to shoot this.”

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Author:George R. R. Martin

“I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.”

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Author:Tatiana Maslany

“Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.”

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Author:Ewan McGregor

“I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn't have time to be nervous - it happened so quickly.”

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Author:Wentworth Miller

“I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.”

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Author:Dominic Monaghan

“Tony Hale is a devout Christian and is a complete retard when it comes to swearing. The script called for him to swear for about 30 seconds and he just couldn't do it.”

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Author:Jason Bateman

“I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.”

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Author:Viggo Mortensen

“It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.”

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Author:Viggo Mortensen

“Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.”

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Author:Viggo Mortensen

“I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for 'Lovely and Amazing.' The story was beautiful and honest, and the characters struggled with the same insecurities many women - including me - face. I didn't think I had a chance in hell of being in the film, but I knew I had to go for it.”

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Author:Emily Mortimer

“In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!”

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Author:Eddie Murphy

“'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award.”

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Author:Bill Murray

“Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.”

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Author:Vladimir Nabokov

“I'm so touched that complete strangers will send me a script asking me to be in their film. That still amazes me - and sometimes for a lot of money too.”

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Author:Liam Neeson

“I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.”

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Author:Edward Norton

“I put steam on the table by being an actor. That is how I live. The longer I live, the more expensive it becomes. So I do my work. And I can't be immensely picky. How many beautiful scripts come in one's lifetime? I have had more than anybody, practically.”

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Author:Peter O'Toole

“If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work.”

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Author:Kate Beckinsale

“I've been very fortunate with the scripts I've had and the people I worked with.”

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Author:Clive Owen

“If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the story into a totally different thing; the narrative of film is different from that of a book.”

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Author:Clive Owen

“There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.”

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Author:Al Pacino

“I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.”

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Author:Al Pacino

“I'm an obsessive hiker and I do it every day for two hours and it really helps me when it comes to learning songs or scripts.”

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Author:Mandy Patinkin

“I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.”

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Author:Alexander Payne

“The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.”

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Author:Amanda Peet

“I think when you're a bigger star you get many good scripts sent to you, and you have to choose which one you're going to gravitate toward, but I just try to gravitate toward the best-written one that's been thrown my way after a lot of girls have passed on it.”

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Author:Amanda Peet

“What happens is things come to you - director, script - and if you respond to it, it's because it's tapping into some part of what's inside you, and different roles tap into different parts.”

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Author:Sean Penn

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