“In 'Law & Order,' your main job is to stay out of the way of the plot. On another show you'd receive your script and see stuff that seems challenging and feel excited that the writers thought highly enough of you to write it for you.” WayFeelsWritingEnoughShowsSeemsJobsLawOrderStuffChallengesScriptsExcitedPlotIn-laws Author:Jeremy Sisto
“I get a lot of 'Oh, you've been gone.' I wasn't gone. Just because you didn't see me doesn't mean I wasn't working and collecting checks. I just wasn't singing and doing videos. I do a lot of other things, like I said, like writing scripts and stuff like that. I write for other artists.” WritingMeanSaidArtistStuffGoneSingingScriptsChecksVideoCollectingWriting Scripts Author:Tionne Watkins
“I like both music and acting, and they both have a lot in common - timing, immediacy, stuff like that. But acting is more regimented. You wait around for hours, you don't get to write the script, you get hired. Music represents me better. I'm not acting; I'm just expressing myself.” WritingStuffWaitingHoursCommonActingScriptsTimingImmediacy Author:Lukas Haas
“Costume is always an asset. Normal costume you have a lot to say about - if you're wearing suits or ties, and what color you want, and how it's going to be cut, and stuff like that, and whether or not you're going to wear a hat, and blah, blah, blah. But, when you're wearing a special costume, and of course, costume is probably the second ingredient in character, script being first, I always find that the costume does a lot to cement your character, to put it firmly in mind.” IfsWantMindFirstsDoeCharacterCoursesStuffCuttingSpecialColorNormalScriptsSuitsTiesHatsIngredientsAssetsCostumesCementBlahWearing A Suit Author:Morgan Freeman
“I've turned down a lot of stuff. I've read several scripts and said "That's not me, I'm not interested in doing that." It's got to be something that inspires me and captures my imagination. I want to be able to say "There's a challenge.".” WantSaidBookAbleReadingStuffImaginationChallengesInspireScriptsCaptureNot InterestedMy ImaginationBooks And ReadingTurned Down Author:Karl Urban
“There are certain things in the scripts that need to be planned: you know, big stunt sequences, battle sequences... you can't improvise that stuff. You can improvise when there's just two of you standing in a kitchen and the most dramatic thing that's going to happen is someone's going to open the fridge.” KnowsNeedsTwoBigsHappensCertainStuffBattleStandingScriptsDramaticKitchenSequenceFridges Author:Tom Hiddleston
“I don't want to do only movies that I'm in. I definitely want to start to branch out and do TV and stuff that I'm not in and really make a good run at it as a production. I'm probably going to take a break from acting after a little while because I've enjoyed the developmental process so much. It helps you as an actor to learn story and to learn how to really nurture a script and work with a writer so you're not sitting there having to write it yourself and give notes.” WantGivingWritingLittlesHelpingStoriesRunningActorsStuffProcessActingBreakTvsSittingNotesScriptsProductionsEnjoyedBranchesNurtureDevelopmental Author:Channing Tatum
“When I started, the scripts weren't as good, and you'd have to have a huge burst of energy to go, "Sheesh, how am I going to? This stuff's no good." So you'd have to improvise something or create something or try to work with the ware and try to figure out, how do you make this visually and orally acceptable, entertaining? Nowadays, the scripts are just so much better, that you don't have to feel that way. You feel like the script's coming to you, you can just relax. You don't have to drive the boat.” WayFeelsTryingEnergyStuffFiguresHugeScriptsBoatRelaxAcceptableEntertaining Author:Bill Murray
“Every time I do a movie, I'm reading the script, or if it's something I have coming up, I'm reading the script, and I just spend hours and hours and days and weeks and months going over the script and just writing a lot of different ideas down, finding a little dialogue or just coming up with ideas for scenes and moments and all that kind of stuff.” IfsWritingKindLittlesIdeasDifferentMomentsReadingStuffHoursWeekMonthsSceneFindingsScriptsDialogueDifferent Ideas Author:Mark Wahlberg
“I won't read scripts because I have a limited amount of time. Why should I help other people do lame stuff when I can just go out and put on lame stuff of my own?” PeopleShouldI CanHelpingStuffMy OwnAmountScriptsHelping OthersShould ILame Author:Eric Idle
“I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.” WritingStuffMy OwnScripts Author:Martin McDonagh
“I only ever privately tell people stuff for the scene. And I often ask what they feel is right. Normally, by the time that we're filming, if it doesn't work, it always the script.” PeopleIfsFeelsAsksStuffSceneScriptsWorking It Author:Richard Ayoade
“The biggest mistake I made was not having a full-time producer. I was securing locations and wardrobe and making sure people get called to show up on time and getting the film to the lab and getting the camera, and all this stuff that I'm happy to do, but if I'm doing every little thing, I'm not concentrating on my story. So it never gets any better than the script.” PeopleIfsLittlesMadeStoriesShowsFilmStuffMistakeCamerasScriptsProducersLittle ThingsLocationWardrobeLabsConcentratingBiggest Mistake Author:Shane Carruth
“I never had the desire to be a professional Twitterer. Every now and then something dumb pops into my head and I'll tweet it. I don't feel any obligation to respond to everyone. Not that I don't appreciate people sending me messages on there, but there are too many. Responding to everyone would take away time for all the stuff I'm actually in the business for.” PeopleFeelsDesireStuffMessagesAppreciateScriptsPopsObligationDumbNow And ThenTweetRespondingAppreciate People Author:Aziz Ansari