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“For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time.”

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Author:Cliff Martinez

“Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and then claim you misspoke.”

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Author:Jonah Goldberg

“Wanting to be liked means being a supporting character in your own life, using the cues of the actors around you to determine your next line rather than your own script. It means that your self-worth will always be tied to what someone else thinks about you, forever out of your control.”

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Author:Jessica Valenti

“We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut up. After all, the writer is what's important. If the script is good and you don't get in its way, it will come off okay. I never discussed a script with Spence [Spencer Tracy]; we just did it. The same with Hank [Henry Fonda] in On Golden Pond. Naturally and unconsciously we joined into what I call a musical necessity-the chemistry that brings out the essence of the characters and the work.”

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Author:Katharine Hepburn

“The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.”

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Author:Steven Moffat

“Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.”

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Author:Preity Zinta

“When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!”

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Author:Richard E. Grant

“Whether it is the cavemen in the caves thousands of years ago, Shakespeare plays, television, movies and books, stories and characters take us on a journey. All I do is tell those stories without scripts and without actors.”

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Author:Mark Burnett

“I don't have a stack of scripts...”

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Author:Bob Newhart

“I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.”

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Author:Amanda Bynes

“I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginning. What will happen when it moves into three dimensions?”

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Author:Don DeLillo

“Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.”

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Author:Gene Hackman

“My partner Dan Ireland wants me to direct, and I read a lot of scripts - some good enough that I could see myself. But then it's like, so what? Who cares? Let someone else direct it.”

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Author:Vincent D'Onofrio

“Sex in the nineties is boring. The problem is that it has gone from an active act to a spectator sport. We watch people make love on television and in films. We call 900 numbers to hear what someone would do to us if they weren't sitting in a boiler room of other dirty talkers reading from a prepared script.”

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Author:Erma Bombeck

“There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore how the minds of their characters work, or to set aside the opportunity to provide necessary background exposition in a succinct fashion.”

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Author:Les Standiford

“Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.”

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Author:Aaron Sorkin

“I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I'm proud of, but I also want to make a living.”

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Author:Dean Cain

“I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.”

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Author:Barbara Hershey

“I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.”

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Author:Benicio Del Toro

“Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts.”

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Author:Benicio Del Toro

“I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.”

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Author:Hume Cronyn

“Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.”

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Author:Brennan Manning

“It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money.”

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Author:Tim Robbins

“But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be.”

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Author:David Cronenberg

“What they told us about 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' when we first started was that we were guaranteed 26 episodes, so that was the longest job I've ever had. And that was basically it - we didn't know what the premise of the show was going to be and we waited, week by week, to see a script.”

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Author:Marina Sirtis

“Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.”

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Author:Gillian Anderson

“I don't get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry, get gas in the car, pick up a script.”

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Author:Sherry Stringfield

“I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.”

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Author:Elle Macpherson

“The script is the coloring book that you’re given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.”

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Author:James Spader

“When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.”

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Author:Louis Malle

“It's usually the exact same three things which are, the Scripts, the Director and the Role those are the three things I look for and really any two of them, If I get two of them that's usually enough, but definitely those are the things I look for.”

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Author:Matt Damon

“I love shooting, when the character is interesting and the script is interesting, but the research beforehand is really fun. The whole process makes me anxious and restless, and I have trouble sleeping, just trying to figure out the character.”

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Author:Matt Damon

“I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.”

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Author:Ralph Fiennes

“I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.”

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Author:Andrea Arnold

“Whenever I'm offered something, I always read the script and meet the director. I still appreciate just being considered.”

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Author:Steve Carell

“I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance.”

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Author:Tim Roth

“I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think anybody knew how to do it. And it was proven to me on the few attempts that were made. The movie that was going to be done, I read that script, it was atrocious. It was just awful. And I just didn't think anybody understood it anymore.”

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Author:Patrick Duffy

“Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.”

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Author:Sydney Pollack

“I think, because I've been working for a while, I've been working since I was ten, I had the fortune of reading a lot, a lot of scripts.”

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Author:Ellen Page

“It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It's just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive.”

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Author:Joey Lauren Adams

“I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great, in that way.”

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Author:David Anders

“I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.”

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Author:Jon Bernthal

“For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.”

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Author:Shane Black

“Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.”

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Author:Shane Black

“Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then I started to get some backlash. Which I didn't mind.”

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Author:Shane Black

“If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.”

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Author:Andre Braugher

“I'm thinking about directing, but I know it's a lot of work and I appreciate what directors do and I would like to be good at it. The opportunity has presented itself four to five times, and I usually said no because of the script.”

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Author:Angela Bassett

“I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.”

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Author:Billy Boyd

“I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it.”

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Author:Colin Baker

“I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.”

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Author:Colin Baker

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