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“I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.”

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Author:Jason Bateman

“Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.”

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Author:Jerry Bruckheimer

“The challenging thing is that we go home after doing the run-through and the writers stay there working, so sometimes I get script changes delivered to me at midnight. It's constantly shifting.”

Sometimes Home Running Challenges Scripts Midnight Shifting

Author:Jillian Bach

“Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.”

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Author:Kathy Bates

“The thing about the movie 'Navy SEALs' is that it was just such a waste. The script could've been shaped to be much better, and you just hate to see all that talent and passion go to waste.”

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Author:Michael Biehn

“I created the characters from what I read in the script. I decided how I should talk, accent, no accent, my own voice, or a created voice. Then, I visualize what I should look like.”

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Author:Ruth Buzzi

“Getting movies made is not as difficult as people think. Making movies is easy. You get a script, you get a director, you raise the money, you make the movie.”

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Author:Stephen Baldwin

“I read a script and I know immediately whether that role is for me or not.”

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Author:Jennifer Coolidge

“I almost always do things that I like, in some form or fashion. Every once in awhile that means that I don't think the script is any good and I don't have any trust in the people, but the film is shooting in Sri Lanka, or somewhere like that, so I'm going.”

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Author:Billy Campbell

“I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.”

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Author:Billy Campbell

“There have been times when I've been asked to do things and I've thought, "This is great! This is a great script. But, I do not believe myself in this role." I pretend I'm the producer and I think, "If I was making this movie, would I cast myself in this part?," and if that doesn't feel right to me, then I don't even go audition for it.”

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Author:Billy Campbell

“If I'm having a bad day in rehearsal, I'll sleep with my script.”

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Author:Nina Arianda

“I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.”

Ifs Want Stories Directors Projects Scripts

Author:Elena Anaya

“If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.”

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Author:Olivia Colman

“If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorizing rather than being real. Maybe every other actor would think that was terrible, I don't know. But it seems to have worked for me, so far.”

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Author:Olivia Colman

“Working with Danny Thomas was truly an adventure every week. Danny didn't always say the words as they appeared in the script. I learned more by osmosis than by sitting down together. He was a force to be reckoned with: an explorer of television.”

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Author:Angela Cartwright

“But most scripts are terrible. Most projects are bad, that's just kind of the way it is. And I'm not really attracted to those.”

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Author:Don Cheadle

“I'm not going to tell you the movies, but I remember getting halfway through the thing and everything sort of tunnel-visioned on me and I couldn't read the script anymore. I looked at the people and I just turned and ran out in a cold sweat. It took me about a year to study it and feel comfortable going in and reading for people.”

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Author:John Corbett

“I can't even read a script. I've tried and it's painful to watch.”

I Can Watches Scripts Painful

Author:Lauren Conrad

“When you're shooting a network television show it inevitably starts airing a few episodes in, and depending on the ratings and the response from the public, you find yourself tweaking your performance or the scripts go in a different direction.”

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Author:Lizzy Caplan

“I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.”

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Author:Marion Cotillard

“I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.”

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Author:Neve Campbell

“I often have scripts sent to me with allegedly Scottish characters where I end up telling them, 'You're going to have to rethink this whole thing!”

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Author:Robert Carlyle

“I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball.”

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Author:Robert Carlyle

“I think with the smaller-scale projects, the burden for success falls more squarely on the shoulders of the actors and the director and the script.”

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Author:Alexis Denisof

“All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.”

Writing Film Direct Scripts

Author:Ava DuVernay

“Back then, it was more or less we couldn't change a line in our script. We weren't allowed to change lines. Today, actors change everything and won't do parts. It's very different today. Back then, the producers were in charge. Today, actors are more in charge.”

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Author:Donna Douglas

“Well, I love TV, and I love a good script.”

Wells Tvs Scripts

Author:Erica Durance

“I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting.”

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Author:Joe Dante

“I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.”

I Can Eye Trouble Scripts

Author:Judi Dench

“My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.”

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Author:Judy Davis

“Sometimes you take a job for the money, sometimes you take it for the location, sometimes you take it for the script; there are just a number of reasons, and ultimately what you see is the whole landscape of it. But I can tell you from behind the scenes - that's what it is, as an actor.”

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Author:Viola Davis

“We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.”

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Author:Viola Davis

“I think the most important thing for an actor is reading the script and trying to figure out if you can play that character well. The last thing on my mind is if the director made good movies previously. It's not my job to know if that director's last movie was any good - it's my job to know if I can play the role.”

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Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.”

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Author:Joe Eszterhas

“My agent asked if I fancied Robin Hood and I thought: 'Yeah, why not?' I hadn't watched it, to be honest, but I'd seen bits and knew it was really popular Saturday family viewing with heaps of action. I thought it would be great fun. I was up for a good old play-fighting and the scripts were terrifically exciting.”

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Author:Joanne Froggatt

“I was deliciously happy filming True Blood. I even kept all the scripts in my office, which I never do with any script. Although I did shred them all in one go when the series finished; it seemed like a ritual, somehow.”

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Author:Michelle Forbes

“The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.”

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Author:Terence Fisher

“I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.”

I Can Imagine Scripts

Author:Tony Gilroy

“I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.”

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Author:Tony Gilroy

“It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there.”

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Author:Alex Garland

“Then I got the offer to play Buck Rogers, but I turned it down thinking it was a cartoon character. Well I was wrong, it wasn't at all. So I read the script and decided I liked the character, it had a good concept.”

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Author:Gil Gerard

“Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.”

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Author:Michael Arndt

“There's editing, and scripts to read and edit, and casting, and all the elements of production that just sort of take up the normal downtime that you would have as an actor. So there's not a lot of that for me.”

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Author:Richard Dean Anderson

“When you read a script, you get a feeling from it.”

Feelings Scripts

Author:Sasha Alexander

“I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you.”

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Author:Chadwick Boseman

“In television you don't have a lot of time to spend with the role or the script. Typically you get a script a week prior to shooting. Sometimes it's even less time, not enough time to dream about the role.”

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Author:Chadwick Boseman

“I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside.”

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Author:Douglas Booth

“For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.”

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Author:Douglas Booth

“Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention... 'Life at These Speeds' has an emotional intensity that really kicked me in the guts.”

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Author:Douglas Booth

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