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“If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.”

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Author:Monica Bellucci

“I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.”

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Author:Sidney Poitier

“I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.”

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Author:Manuel Puig

“I always feel that if you put me in a room with a director and a writer and let me talk about the script, I can give a good account of myself.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.”

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Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.”

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Author:Robert Redford

“And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.”

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Author:Keanu Reeves

“I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.”

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Author:Keanu Reeves

“A script is like a theory of a movie.”

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Author:John C. Reilly

“I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.”

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Author:Jason Reitman

“I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.”

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Author:Jeremy Renner

“I don't get a lot of romantic comedy scripts.”

Comedy Scripts

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.”

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Author:Robert Rodriguez

“I like my characters to be ones I think about long after I've finished reading the script.”

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Author:Saoirse Ronan

“What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.”

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Author:Geoffrey Rush

“If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.”

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Author:Winona Ryder

“Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.”

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Book:Harvest Poems: 1910-1960

Source: Harvest Poems: 1910-1960

“There's a lot of films that have relatively rigid road maps because they have a script and others that are less rigid because they have less of a script, like 'Elephant.' The road map becomes more interpretive, maybe, than one with a detailed script. Editing-wise, they all have their problems.”

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Author:Gus Van Sant

“I don't like the word 'autobiography.' I rather like the term 'autofiction.' The second you make a script out of the story of your life, it becomes fictional. Of course, the truth is never far. But the story is created out of it.”

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Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.”

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Author:John Sayles

“A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are you're going to have a good movie.”

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Author:Ricky Schroder

“If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.”

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Author:Martin Scorsese

“There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor, good script.”

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Author:Amanda Seyfried

“I miss that process of getting the script and reading it and working on it. Every actor has their own way of memorizing their lines, and the whole process of starting to work with the other actors and the director, and doing rehearsals, and going to the location, and going through wardrobe.”

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Author:Pauly Shore

“When I was 21 I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for The Simpsons who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.”

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Author:Zadie Smith

“I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script.”

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Author:Steven Soderbergh

“I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.”

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Author:Kevin Spacey

“It's funny. When I saw the script in my inbox and it said 'Sparkle,' I thought, 'For real? It's really called 'Sparkle?'' I was wondering, too, how does 'Jordin Sparks as Sparkle' sound?”

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Author:Jordin Sparks

“'Sparkle' fell into my lap. I had heard a little bit about it, that it was being redone in early 2011. I was just kind of like, 'Oh, that would be really cool,' and not really thinking too much about it, and then it came through my agency. I read it, I fell in love with the script and I went in to audition.”

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Author:Jordin Sparks

“It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“You can't start a movie by having the attitude that the script is finished, because if you think the script is finished, your movie is finished before the first day of shooting.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“Females want other females to be really strong, so there are a whole lot of scripts that are basically just male parts renamed as a girl.”

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Author:Kristen Stewart

“I can't remember what my first script was.”

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Author:Tom Stoppard

“I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.”

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Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.”

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Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.”

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Author:Meryl Streep

“I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.”

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Author:Taylor Swift

“To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.”

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Author:Quentin Tarantino

“Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it — or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character.”

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Author:Hunter S. Thompson

“You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.”

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Author:Orlando Bloom

“I like to stand in my kitchen with the script on a counter that's about chest high. Usually I do something else at the same time - make a chicken or slice vegetables - and all day long I just read it over and over and over.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“I've always been a character actor, although I'm not quite sure what that means. All my scripts are absolutely covered in notes, so any time I say anything - even 'pass the salt' - I have six subtexts, comments on what I really mean when I'm saying that. Maybe that's what gives the impression that I'm saying one thing and thinking something else.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“Quite often, I'll be sent a script for a movie. And I find that I like it, so I say I'll do it. But then they rewrite it for me. They make it quirky. Odd. I find that rather annoying. I call it Walkenising.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“The best thing for me is, when I'm not working, is to be at home and to have a script or two scripts is better, and to be just walking around the house and just thinking about the lines.”

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Author:Christopher Walken

“I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.”

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Author:Denzel Washington

“I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.”

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Book:This is Orson Welles

Source: This is Orson Welles

“I find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that's been gone over, you can tell, like rings on a tree, by how bad it is, how long it's been in development.”

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Author:Joss Whedon

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