Script Quotes - page 2

In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece. (Madeleine Stowe)
A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue. View quote
David Mamet
We see only the script and not the paper on which the script is written. The paper is there, whether the script is on it or not. To those who look upon the script as real, you have to say that it is unreal--an illusion--since it rests upon paper. The wise person looks upon both paper and script as one. View quote
Ramana Maharshi
You get a script and you love it. You find a director that you trust, and it becomes all about how do I commit to this as fully as possible? And the last thing you can afford to have in your mind is what are other people going to think of this? View quote
James Van Der Beek
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. View quote
Michael Chabon
History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, [...] The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it. View quote
George Burns
If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it. View quote
Hugo Weaving
The reason we shot it was that the script was geared to Las Vegas and it was something commercial that we wanted to have in the can in case Butterfly was a success and we needed a follow-up. View quote
Pia Zadora
You know how we built the pyramids? You gotta ask yourself a question always flip the script. What if up was down and down was up? What if you looked down into space standing up on Earth? This is how we built the pyramids. View quote
Eddie Griffin
My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it. (Morgan Freeman)
I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn't have time to be nervous - it happened so quickly. View quote
Wentworth Miller
Every screenwriter worthy of the name has already directed his film when he has written his script. View quote
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
They needed someone to write a script of The Great Gatsby very quickly for the movie they were making. I took this job so I'd be sure to have some dough to support my family. View quote
Francis Ford Coppola
When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary.' View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
I would love to work with Salman. We have a great tuning so if we work together, it will be great fun. But till the time we don't get a good script, a script that excites both of us, we can't work together. View quote
Aamir Khan
I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English. View quote
Norman Spinrad
I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director. View quote
Audrey Tautou
Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan. View quote
Olivia Wilde
Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business. View quote
Robin Wright
Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements. (Robert Rodriguez)
I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed. View quote
Ansel Elgort
You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin. View quote
Tim Roth
Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with. View quote
Famke Janssen
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. View quote
Alex Garland