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“I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started.”

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Book:Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges: His Life in His Words

Source: Preston Sturges by Preston Sturges: His Life in His Words

“Most actors go, I read the script and fell in love with it; I fall in love with the directors.”

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Author:Sam Worthington

“You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.”

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Author:Naomi Watts

“You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.”

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Author:Dick York

“This was a really big opportunity. This script was even mediocre. The idea was great, but Jay came on with his guys made it great and very specific. It all came together well.”

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Author:Sean William Scott

“We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.”

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Author:Peter Farrelly

“If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.”

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Author:Julie London

“We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.”

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Author:John Schlesinger

“Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.”

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Author:David Hackworth

“My manager got the script for Under the Dome, and I read it and just fell in love with the character. I grew up on Stephen King, and I love his whole aesthetic of the classic American story with supernatural events happening, so it just made sense.”

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Author:Alexander Koch

“My agent sent me the script and I loved it. I wondered how they would turn me into a chimp. My agent said it would probably not entail to much time. Just some hair and make-up. I found out that it was not so simple.”

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Author:Kim Hunter

“Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.”

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Author:Aaron Stanford

“I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.”

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Author:Manuel Puig

“The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.”

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Author:Max von Sydow

“I love to play with language; make it do tricks, turn a word inside out to see if it's got a hidden meaning tucked away somewhere, or perhaps find that it's capable of an extra entendre or two. . . . Plotting is nothing I did, or do, naturally. It is the hardest part of the writing process. No matter how many times you plot a script successfully, the next one, representing new and uncharted territory, convinces you that you really don't know how to do it at all.”

“The ideal time for writing a [television] script is four days, though sometimes it has to be two or three days depending on the deadline. If it's two days, sometimes there are things I see that don't work as well. If I have two weeks, the scripts get kind of flabby and lack the adrenaline that a sense of deadline fills you with.”

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Author:David E. Kelley

“There's something in the Zeitgeist now. A lot of [film] scripts I get have these very dark themes, a cornucopia of dysfunction. You know, Jane is a 13-year-old anorexic who lives with her parents and has been raped by her father. And this is a comedy.”

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Author:Christine Vachon

“I took many notes, more than usual before I sat down and wrote Act One, Scene One. I had perhaps eighty pages of notes. . . . I was so prepared that the script seemed inevitable. It was almost all there. I could almost collate it from my notes. The story line, the rather tenuous plot we have, seemed to work out itself. It was a very helpful way to write, and it wasn't so scary. I wasn't starting with a completely blank page.”

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Author:Charles Busch

“I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting is in its terseness, saying a lot with a little. I have no patience when I read a script where the writer describes this guy and what he's wearing and his glasses and his hair.”

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Author:Scott Frank

“The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty with the set, which required too much effort to move around. Having gotten the benefit of seeing it done once, I wanted to work on the script, to make it sharper and more pointed.”

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Author:Arthur Miller

“I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out of my films with a clear feeling about what is right and wrong. They're ambivalent. You walk away with work to do. My films are a sort of investigation. They ask questions . . .. Sometimes I hear that some [Hollywood] studio is interested in me. Then they discover that this is the guy who works with no script, that there is no casting discussion, no interference, that I have the final cut, and that does it.”

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Author:Mike Leigh

“Jerry picked up the technique of visualizing the story as a movie scenario; and whenever he gave me a script, I would see it as a screenplay. That was the technique that Jerry used, and I just picked it up.”

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Author:Joe Shuster

“I have a shoebox: for ideas, fragments, snatches of conversation I hear. I scrawl it down, throw the scraps in the box. Every time I start a new script I start picking through the pieces. Suddenly you get five pieces together and think: this is almost the first Act of a movie, if I flesh it out a bit.”

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Author:Shane Black

“American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that.”

People Talking Conversation Scripts People Talking Non Stop

Author:Shirley Henderson

“On 'Lab Rats,' I read the script probably three or four times before we ever even do a table read because I want to be completely prepared. And I want to know exactly which beats I have to hit and where I need to make something comical. Some lines need a little more than others do just to get the point across, to get the joke to be funny.”

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Author:Billy Unger

“I'd love to work on a script in collaboration.”

Scripts Collaboration

Author:Matthew McGrory

“For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.”

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Author:Jessica Raine

“The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.”

Past Scripts Rewriting

Book:Elric The Stealer of Souls

Source: Elric The Stealer of Souls

“I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.”

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Author:Sarah Dessen

“When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with. My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something. It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.”

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Author:Akira Kurosawa

“Everyone is trying to do something that hasn't been done and that's a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don't give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven't been done before.”

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Author:Dennis Muren

“Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.”

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Book:Collected Pruse

Source: Collected Pruse

“I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.”

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Author:Mario Cantone

“Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.”

Want Television Scripts Tuesday

Author:Denis Norden

“Howard Minsky had gotten the script to her agent prior to my involvement.”

Scripts Agents Involvement

Author:Arthur Hiller

“Sampling is a new way of doing something that’s been with us for a long time […] The mix breaks free from the old associations. New contexts form from old. The script gets flipped. The languages evolve and learn to speak in new forms, new thoughts. The sound of thought becomes legible again at the edge of the new meanings.”

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Author:DJ Spooky

“For all filmmakers: True originality is the key, only direct your own unique movie scripts, be a megalomaniac and not give a damn.”

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Author:Tom Six

“I have never, for a single moment, been aware of pressure from anyone in television about how I dress, what my shape is or how I speak. I've always written my own scripts. I've always been the first to point out that I need to be fit. I need to look good.”

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Author:Anne Robinson

“I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch...”

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Author:Jimmy Fallon

“I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it.”

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Author:David S. Goyer

“I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.”

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Author:Mark Millar

“In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts. A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it's like having a big train set.”

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Author:David Yates

“But I've always been hard to cast, I've never been an ingenue, I've never been the romantic lead. I'm an actor; give me the script and I do what I do and hope it's good.”

Giving Hard Actors Give Me Scripts Casts

Author:Edie Falco

“The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.”

Beats Scripts Rap Monologues

Author:Azealia Banks

“You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.”

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Book:Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.”

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Author:Andrzej Wajda

“You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.”

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Author:Curtis Hanson

“This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.”

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Author:Angelina Jolie

“Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.”

People Writing Mind Ideas Elements Theater Scripts Lure Craziest

Author:Robert Rodriguez

“As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.”

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Author:Stephen Frears

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