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“What is the right time [to discuss theology]? Whenever we are free from the mire and noise without, and our commanding faculty is not confused by illusory, wandering images, leading us, as it were, to mix fine script with ugly scrawling, or sweet-smelling scent with slime. We need actually 'to be still' (Ps. 46:10) in order to know God, and when we receive the opportunity, 'to judge uprightly' (Ps. 75:2) in theology.”

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Author:Gregory of Nazianzus

“When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me.”

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Author:Shane West

“All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.”

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Author:Javier Bardem

“The root of any film project for me is this inner need to express something. What nurtures this root and makes it grow into a tree is the script. What makes the tree bear flowers and fruit is the directing.”

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Book:Something Like An Autobiography

Source: Something Like An Autobiography

“I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.”

Writing Play Scripts

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember.”

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Author:David Simon

“I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.”

Funny Scripts

Author:Jennifer Aniston

“I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.”

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Author:Bella Thorne

“You can't fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as they move to the big screen.”

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Author:Howard Hawks

“Acting, films, scripts, is literally the only thing I’m 100 percent confident in. I know what I’m doing. I just understand it, and I love it. When I’m on set, that’s when I feel the most at home and in control.”

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Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre.”

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Author:Natalie Portman

“There are so many scripts and they are fantastic. I think I would like to do something different, maybe something smaller.”

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Author:Emma Watson

“Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.”

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Author:Pete Postlethwaite

“Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.”

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Author:Sally Hawkins

“I'm not staying away from any genre. I'm trying to get scripts that I like.”

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Author:Emile Hirsch

“The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.”

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Author:Judi Dench

“A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.”

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Author:Peter Mullan

“A director should cast a person who fits into their script.”

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Author:Christina Ricci

“I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.”

Thinking Want States Scripts Panic

Author:Lily Rabe

“Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.”

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Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it.”

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Author:Hugo Weaving

“I get asked to give stuff to my dad. I'm, like, 'I'm not gonna pass your script to him!' You know? My dad's my dad. I'm not his agent.”

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Author:Domhnall Gleeson

“I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?”

Thinking Kind Whole Reading Scripts Neurotic

Author:Tom Baker

“I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.”

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Author:Tom Baker

“I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.”

Ifs Knows Grows Acting Growing Up Scripts

Author:Mara Wilson

“Some actors count their lines as soon as they receive a script. I'm the opposite. I try to see how many lines I can whittle down. You can say just as much in 4 as you can in 14.”

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Author:Glenn Ford

“I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.”

Should Book Scripts

Author:Stephen Dorff

“I have a tendency to say 'yes' to a script or no to a script. Not 'yes' based on a rewrite.”

Scripts Tendencies

Author:William H. Macy

“At this point, I'm happy to be part of something special. As an actor I liked to choose scripts that I'm passionate about.”

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Author:Liam Hemsworth

“Very often on some of this stuff when I'd have to go to work. I'd just give the script a cursory glance. I had no training, and I was a quick study, so nobody knew how involved or not involved I was. But I look at that stuff now and I can see I wasn't involved, and I wasn't very good.”

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Author:Jackie Cooper

“Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all.”

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Author:Greta Scacchi

“I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.”

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Author:Walton Goggins

“A lot of the time the film chooses me. I'll be working and I'll get a call from my agent and I'll get the script and then tell him what I think.”

Thinking Film Scripts Agents Choose Me

Author:Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

“I did get offers from Hollywood, but they were all scripts with monsters in them. If I had done them, I would have disappeared. I would have come back to France anyway, and I would have had to start all over again and lost a lot of time.”

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Author:Carole Bouquet

“I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors.”

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Author:Wentworth Miller

“With every script, I write a note to my collaborator that says: 'I write full script. But see it as a guide. You take us where we need to go any way you see fit. I tried to write something specifically for you. If you agree with my choices, fine. If not, you do what you have to do.'”

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Book:Words for Pictures: The Art and Business of Writing Comics and Graphic Novels

Source: Words for Pictures: The Art and Business of Writing Comics and Graphic Novels

“A trick I picked up from reading Frank Miller scripts: ... He tended to always start his panel caps sometimes with a general noun and a verb. 'He weeps,' and then there'd be whatever else. And a couple of collaborators of mine have always said that the first sentence of my script is for them, and everything else that comes after is for me. Which is true, that's very much how I try to write. The first line is just to get the physical action down, and then I'll kind of drift off into whatever else I see in my head and they can take it or leave it.”

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Author:Matt Fraction

“You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level.”

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Author:Tobey Maguire

“Fox came to us with the concept for ICE AGE and they came to us with the first draft of the script. They also gave us a mandate to make it into a comedy from what was previously a rather dramatic action concept.”

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Author:Chris Wedge

“I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.”

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Author:Alejandro Amenabar

“We go through, I think, six different drafts of each script. And then my shooting it is roughly, you know, fifteen percent of the total work that gets done on a show. Then it's all post-production animation after that.”

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Author:Steve Burns

“In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.”

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Author:Madeleine Stowe

“Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn't and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don't have to use them but you gotta hold them.”

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Author:Blair Underwood

“Of all the stars whom I worked with, I think Steve knew better what worked for him on the screen than any other. He had such a sense of what he could register, and that helped a lot in terms of shaping the character and the script.”

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Author:Robert Wise

“It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character.”

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Author:Blair Underwood

“And I tell ya, when I sit in that sound booth and started reading the script and starting to get into the character, man, it's an easy jump for me, because I understand what it's all about.”

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Author:Lawrence Taylor

“All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.”

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Author:Jack Nance

“They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation.”

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Author:Michael York

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