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“I need to push myself. I'm not saying that I just want to do anything that's shocking, but when you have that combination of a script that's really beautiful and extremely shocking, it's exciting for me.”

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Author:Emily Browning

“I felt alive when I read a script and acted out a scene, or sang a song. It was my dream. I'm just very lucky that I'm still doing it and able to earn a living from it.”

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Author:Luke Evans

“I think I read films having grown up around the pre-production and post-production aspect of the filmmaking medium, a lot more than most young people who are in acting would have experienced. I do think about scripts in a different way. I can't just read a script as an actor. I don't know how to do that.”

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Author:Alice Englert

“As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.”

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Author:Garth Ennis

“If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.”

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Author:Michael Ealy

“I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.”

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Author:Sam Elliott

“Sometimes you do a film because the script is amazing, sometimes you do it because you get to work with amazing people, and sometimes you do a film because they pay you money.”

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Author:Sean Patrick Flanery

“A script is not a piece of literature, it's a process.”

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Author:Abel Ferrara

“Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a shot... but if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don't stand a shot. It's very rare-almost never-that a good film gets made from a bad screenplay.”

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Author:Tim Bevan

“Once you crack the script, everything else follows.”

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Author:Ridley Scott

“[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.”

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Author:William Wyler

“Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.”

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Author:George Cukor

“If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks.”

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Author:John Patrick Shanley

“The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything.”

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Author:Ewan McGregor

“I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing.”

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Author:Guy Pearce

“There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, number three is story. Good actors can save a bad script and make it bearable, but good actors can't make a bad script good - they can just make it bearable.”

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Author:Mark Strickson

“If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it, and do it honestly.”

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Author:Olivia Colman

“I love it when actors come to you with a problem and you have to listen. You'd like them to just get on with it, but it often means that there's a problem with the script.”

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Author:Jane Campion

“What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.”

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Author:Michael Chabon

“I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.”

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Author:Michael Connelly

“I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.”

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Author:Dakota Fanning

“I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.”

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Author:Edie Falco

“Girls in scripts are often pretty but brainless, or geeky and no one likes them, so it's great to find richer roles. Chalk and cheese aspects of people are very interesting to play.”

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Author:Jessica Brown Findlay

“I think that you can't make a movie without a script. But you also can't make movies without actors. You also can't make movies without technicians. And there has to be just one person in charge of everybody, and to me that one person is the director.”

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Author:John Frankenheimer

“As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new things. And if the scripts are good, it doesn't really matter.”

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Author:Michael Fassbender

“How do you top 'Mormon?' I get sent scripts all the time and I don't know what I would do next. What do you do after that? So I think if you do see me onstage, you'll see me in something dramatic, maybe, or you'll see me try my hand at something else. Perhaps fail, terribly, but try.”

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Author:Josh Gad

“Many times, when a director reads a script and wants somebody who says 'Far out', then they let me do what I want with it and that's usually more interesting for an actor.”

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Author:Katherine Helmond

“Yeah, I mean I've definitely had a bunch of action scripts sent to me, but again I'm a stickler for directors. If it's like an action flick with a great director then it's like 'Oh let's look at this thing,' but if it's just like a shoot-em'-up with a first time director. I don't know if that's the trajectory I want to take with what I'm doing.”

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Author:Armie Hammer

“I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.”

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Author:Carl Hiaasen

“I always tend to see, right after reading the script, the character and how I want to play it. I guess that's sort of most of the work, preparing for the role, but almost the creation of the character seems to go on as I read through the script.”

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Author:Freddie Highmore

“Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with.”

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Author:Jay Hernandez

“I was on vacation with my family when I got the scripts for 'Wanderlust' and I was trying to work on the audition while I was on vacation. I remember a big gust of wind blew the entire script into the pool, so I had to dry it with a hairdryer.”

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Author:Kathryn Hahn

“My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.”

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Author:Lasse Hallstrom

“We shot in a place called Asheville, which is like beautiful, beautiful forests. … And then part of it we shot all the reaping stuff, which was just crazy - because the reaping in the book and in the script is such an emotional thing for everyone. It really did feel like that when we were shooting it.”

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Author:Liam Hemsworth

“There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.”

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Author:Merle Haggard

“If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know.”

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Author:Michel Hazanavicius

“A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic behind the words. I have to be with the script for quite a long time before things start to fall into place, before they become part of the character.”

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Author:Sally Hawkins

“You can have a million dollar, 20 million dollar budget or 60 million dollar budget, and if you don't have a good script, it doesn't mean a thing.”

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Author:Tippi Hedren

“It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.”

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Author:Tony Hale

“I always write the script by myself.”

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Author:Bong Joon-ho

“The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories.”

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Author:Bong Joon-ho

“I couldn't say no to jobs and I couldn't say no to drugs. I'd get high from a movie, I'd be somebody else because I didn't particularly like me, so long as I had a script in my hand, I was okay. As soon as the movie was over, I didn't know what to do.”

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Author:Brion James

“What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who could make or break a film. But as we all know, the writer has always been at the bottom of the creative heap.”

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Author:Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

“The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.”

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Author:Famke Janssen

“I'm not saying no to anything, at least as far as reading scripts. I don't care if it's television or films but, personally, I would say I'd like to establish myself more in film.”

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Author:Michael B. Jordan

“I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book.”

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Author:Neil Jordan

“Often jobs are un-turndownable even before you read the script. You go, "Well, I have to do that."”

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Author:Toby Jones

“I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There's a comic element to it, which is forces stacked against this little guy, and how is he going to defeat them?”

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Author:Toby Jones

“For me, I've always been one that reads a script and has been ready, wiling and able to go out and fight for parts.”

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Author:Chris Klein

“My friends, we all improvise together usually. So we write what I think is a good script but always leave a lot of room to find stuff on the day; and we always do find something. That's the advantage to having actors who are, in their own right, writers.”

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Author:Nick Kroll

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