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You can win more arguments then you might think as a writer, even though you legally have no recourse, and your script can get muddied and altered in any way possible. You can use reason, logic, and passion to argue persuasively for a case in your favor.
Shane Black
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Screenwriter
Altered
Logic
Recourse
Argue
Favor
Legally
Script
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When the script is finished, and you're sitting around at a table read, and all the actors are reading the words that you've written, and you're hearing it out loud for the first time, that is always, every single time, no matter what, a magical process.
Shonda Rhimes
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Screenwriter
Finished
First Time
Loud
Reading
Sitting
Every Single Time
Magical
Script
Single Time
Table
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My Writers Guild of America card is one of my proudest possessions. I was given it after being invited to write the script for a film of my last novel, 'Me Before You,' which is being made by MGM. Whenever I look at it, I think, 'I'm a Hollywood writer!'
Jojo Moyes
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Novelist
Hollywood
Invited
Mgm
Card
Writers
Guild
Possessions
Proudest
Script
Whenever
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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.
Nick Kroll
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Actor
Advantage
Thinking
Together
Writing
Good Always Together
Good Script
Improvise
Script
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I'm a stickler for structure. So I tend to make sure I'm hitting certain points in the script and that I'm progressing and moving things along. You know, are the characters keeping the plot moving along? And are they true, and do I know their motivations?
Allison Schroeder
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Hitting
Moving
Plot
Structure
Motivations
Progressing
Script
Tend
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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.
Billy Campbell
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Film Actor
Fashion
Mean
Shooting
Sri Lanka
Thinking
Trust Good People
Trust Good Always
Awhile
Lanka
Script
Sri
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Could I have worked under a system where there were Draconian controls on my creativity, meaning budget, time, script choices, etc.? Definitely not. I would have fared poorly under the old studio system that guys like Howard Hawks did so well in. I cannot.
Michael Mann
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Film Director
Choices
Draconian
Etc
Hawks
Budget
Controls
Meaning
Poorly
Studio
Script
Studio System
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The script for 'Infamous' was so poised between tragedy and comedy. It's a dream part. One reads those scripts with a sense of melancholia. When you read a script that good... I remember thinking, 'Oh, this script is too good. They'll never give it to me.'
Toby Jones
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Actor
Infamous
Scripts
Tragedy
Good Thinking Me
Poised
Reads
Script
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I don't want to work just for the sake of working. Generally, if a good script comes in, I read it, and if it appeals to me, it appeals to me. And it doesn't have to be anything - it doesn't have to be the main character; it doesn't have to be a huge part.
Alison Doody
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Appeals
Character
Huge
Sake
Work Good Me
Work Good Character
Part
Read
Working
Generally
Good Script
Huge Part
Main
Main Character
Script
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Simon Monjack had nothing to do with 'Factory Girl.' He filed a frivolous lawsuit against us... making bogus claims that we had stolen his script. He held us literally to hostage and we were forced to settle with him as he held our production over a barrel.
George Hickenlooper
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Filmmaker
Claims
Frivolous
Lawsuit
Stolen
Barrel
Factory
Forced
Held
Literally
Script
Settle
Simon
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The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.
John Rhys-Davies
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Actor
Scene
Scripts
Stories
Certainly
Front
Word
Overall
Putting
Ripples
Script
Sentence
Story
Tight
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When you make feature films, you have a script, which is a bible. The final result should be as it was written down on paper. And in documentary, you can write whatever you want, but life brings you situations where you have to be fast thinking, fast moving.
Danis Tanovic
/
Bible
Paper
Brings
Documentary
Fast
Feature
Feature Films
Result
Script
Written Down
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I got the 'Stranger Things' script, like, a week before NBC canceled 'State of Affairs.' I really had this moment where I'm like, 'I'm done.' My neuroses is very sophisticated: I was like, 'I am done. Hollywood is done with David Harbour. They are finished.'
David Harbour
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Finished
Harbour
Hollywood
Nbc
Sophisticated
Stranger
Affairs
David
Moment
Neuroses
Script
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Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'
Naomi Wolf
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Author
Forbidden
High Level
Preoccupation
Usual
Women Are
Allow
Success Work Women
Follow
Madonna
Script
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Basically, if you could get a good trailer out of the script, Roger had no objection to you making a really good movie. He liked it if you did. He liked the more cleverness and ingenuity you could bring to it. He just wasn't going to give you any more money.
John Sayles
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Film Director
Movie
Cleverness
Giving
Good Movie
Ingenuity
Roger
Basically
Bring
Liked
Objection
Script
Trailer
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The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything. And if you don't connect to that foundation, if you don't believe in that and feel that you wanna spend three, four months of your life exploring it, then all of the other elements are secondary.
Ewan Mcgregor
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Actor
Elements
Exploring
Months
Three
Wanna
Life Believe Always
Connect
Spend
Script
Secondary
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When we shoot 24, there are so many things I have to worry about, from the script to technical things to my performance, that I don't have a second to be bored or take anything for granted. We produce 24 hours of film a season, which is like making 12 movies.
Kiefer Sutherland
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Actor
Bored
Granted
Produce
Worry
Performance
Script
Technical Things
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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.
Joe Eszterhas
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Writer
Consensus
Dynamics
Executives
Focus Groups
Giving
Groups
Opinion Polls
Polls
Voice
Waiting
Cabinet
Inner
Script
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I'm extremely excited about working with Troika on 'The Hive.' This script has two elements I always look for in a thriller - strong, believable female characters and a smart, very dark and very creepy story that will definitely resonate with large audiences.
Brad Anderson
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Believable
Creepy
Dark
Elements
Female
Female Characters
Smart
Audiences
Extremely
Hive
Large
Resonate
Script
Thriller
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I hadn't read comics really before coming in to shooting the original 'Thor.' During that and beforehand, I read stacks and got my head around it all. We reference, especially when we were putting the script together before we started shooting, other stories.
Chris Hemsworth
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Actor
Shooting
Beforehand
Original
Comics
Putting
Reference
Script
Thor
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I've been pretty lucky - or slothful - in that I've never been a 'career builder.' I take the jobs that come along that feel right, and that's left me fairly open to all genres, really. But with 'Caprica,' the complex, dark and very smart script was the draw.
Eric Stoltz
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Actor
Builder
Fairly
Complex
Draw
Genres
Script
Slothful
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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.
Donna Douglas
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Actress
Lines
Producers
Allowed
Charge
More Or Less
Parts
Script
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I remember I was unsure about doing 'Shameless.' I'd never acted in anything so commercial. I read the script in the garden with my mum, Mary. She said it's filthy dirty, but she said these people have love and sex and nothing else. That made me take the role.
Anne-Marie Duff
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Actress
Filthy
Garden
Mary
Mum
Sex
Shameless
Unsure
Love Sex Me
Love Me Remember
Acted
Commercial
Script
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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.
Billy Campbell
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Film Actor
Cowboy
Dialogue
Fireman
Independent
Play
People Find Person
Occupations
Script
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I knew from the first episode that 'Longmire' was something special - I met the writers/exec producers, read the script, and knew it was special, so to have the network and the studio and the fans get behind it in the way that they have has been really amazing.
Katee Sackhoff
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Actress
Amazing
Fans
Producers
Something Special
Special
Behind
Read
Episode
Met
Network
Studio
Script
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'Troy' is an adaptation of the Trojan War myth in its entirety, not 'The Iliad' alone. 'The Iliad' begins with the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon over the slave girl Briseis nine years into the war. The equivalent scene occurs halfway through my script.
David Benioff
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Novelist
Achilles
Adaptation
Entirety
Halfway
Iliad
Myth
Nine
Scene
Slave
Begins
Equivalent
Occurs
Quarrel
Script
Troy
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The thing is when you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or book to script to film. If I play Frank Sinatra, there's gonna be things I do in a movie that Frank might not have done, but it's the personality that comes across.
Alex Pettyfer
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Actor
Frank
Persona
Script
Sinatra
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Chris Columbus, who directed the first two Harry Potter films and was the family comedy king through the '80s and '90s - 'Mrs. Doubtfire,' 'Home Alone,' etc. - has acquired rights to 'The Cypress House' and is working on the script himself, with intent to direct.
Michael Koryta
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Author
Columbus
Comedy
Direct
Etc
Harry Potter
Rights
Acquired
Alone Family Home
Chris
Films
Harry
Himself
Intent
Mrs
Potter
Script
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Ah, 'Kismet,' or Carry On Camel, as we called it. I thought the show was shocking. It was the worst designed production ever but it's got a fantastic score. It's not an awfully good book though. You really have to work hard to eke out any laughs from that script.
Michael Ball
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Fantastic
Good Book
Score
Shocking
Worst
Ah
Work Good Hard
Camel
Carry
Designed
Laughs
Production
Script
Work Hard
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I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting classes. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.
Vinny Guadagnino
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Television Personality
Acting Classes
Drama
Monologues
Performing
School Plays
Love Always Way
Classes
Nine-To-Five
Plays
Script
Working Actor
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Long ago, I did a five-and-a-half-hour-a-day, six-day-a-week talk show for four years, early on, in Los Angeles - local show. And when you are on that many hours with no script, you know, you get very comfortable, maybe overly comfortable with that small audience.
Betty White
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Actress
Half
Long Ago
Los Angeles
Years
Angeles
Overly
Local
Los
Script
Talk Show
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
Victoria Legrand
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Singer-Songwriter
Gun
Right Thing
Song
Trying
Script
The Right Thing
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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.
Guy Pearce
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Actor
Trust
Best Work
Character
Stuff
Together
Trying
Vivid
Best Work Character
Trust Best Work
Create
Read
Entirely
Having
Page
Script
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I prefer working, period. I think that I like doing film more just because when you get a script, you have the story from start to finish, so you can really find the character's arc, and when you walk away from it, you know you're sort of powerless to what happens.
Addison Timlin
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Actress
Powerless
Arc
Prefer
Finish
Script
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It's hard for me to find a script that's perfectly suited to me, so even if it's a good script, I'll still have to work on it with someone and shape it, making it the film that I want to make. So in that respect, I prefer to do the stuff that I've generated anyway.
Yorgos Lanthimos
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Work Good Respect
Anyway
Prefer
Good Script
Perfectly
Script
Shape
Suited
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To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing. At the same time, it's fun to just stay on your toes and let the next bit of dialogue come in, and turn the page as you read the next script and see what they have in store for you next.
Dallas Roberts
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Actor
Dialogue
Toes
Time Character Your
Time Character Fun
Page
Script
Store
Taxing
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The big lesson of Reagan is: To think that he was some sort of simple figurehead and didn't do the thinking and simply read a script in front of him woefully underestimates him. Ronald Reagan was an extremely intelligent person with a real V8 engine under his hood.
Eugene Jarecki
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Author
Hood
Intelligent
Intelligent Person
Real
Simple
Engine
Figurehead
Lesson
Reagan
Script
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My character Milly in 'The Boy Who Could Fly' was a very strong part. There were dramatic moments, and there were humorous moments, too. The whole story with Eric Underwood's character was just wonderful, and the messages behind the script were very important to me.
Lucy Deakins
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Dramatic
Humorous
Messages
Script
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I'm not really comfortable with who I am to be honest. I feel more free to step into the shoes of somebody else. There's always an element of me in there but, you know, if you give me a script and some clothes I can do anything. But, as Ryan, I'm a bit of a recluse.
Ryan Kwanten
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Actor
Clothes
Give Me
Recluse
Shoes
Who I Am
Always Me Step
I Am Me Step
Element
Ryan
Script
To Be Honest
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They're still working on the script - they've got to get that nailed down and they want the first movie to come out obviously, not get too ahead of themselves. But yeah, it's looking good. I love the second book a lot as well, so kind of diving into that is awesome.
Josh Hutcherson
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Film Actor
Diving
Looking Good
Yeah
Ahead
Awesome
Love Good Looking
Nailed
Script
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How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or a book review, or even a film script, but for fiction I must have my own desk, my own wall with my own postcards pinned to it, and my own window not to look out of.
John Banville
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Novelist
Aeroplanes
Book
Envy
Fiction
Film
Hotel
Hotel Rooms
My Own
Postcards
Produce
Rooms
Wall
Window
Article
Run
Desk
Writers
Look
Pinned
Review
Script
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I liked it because it was such a dangerous script and showed just what human beings are capable of. Here was a movie in which Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt, who always win in every movie they ever do, simply don't win. I felt that was outrageous for a commercial movie.
Kevin Spacey
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Actor
Brad
Capable
Freeman
Human Beings
Outrageous
Scripts
Winning
Brad Pitt
Commercial
Morgan
Morgan Freeman
Pitt
Script
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Video game voicing is absolutely different from cartoon work. In cartoons, you're almost always there with the entire cast, and the entire script is acted out in sequence. With video games, it's you by yourself, in a room with a script you just got when you walked in.
Josh Keaton
/
Cartoon
Sequence
Video
Acted
Work Always Yourself
Work Game Yourself
Script
Video Game
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I just wish I got a quarter every time someone clicks on 'Little Women, Big Cars.' We had a 125-page script for this show. We used the creator's house to shoot. But it's expensive to do these shows. They're eventually not going to be able to get the quality of actors.
Julie Warner
/
Quality
Big Cars
Clicks
Creator
Expensive
Every Time
Script
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I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.
William Mapother
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Actor
Bones
Good Sense
Scripts
Stories
Structure
Thinking
Years
Intact
Pretty Good
Script
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You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.
Dick York
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Actor
Music
Air
Effects
Games
Play
Rehearsal
Timing
Wait
Script
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Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing.
Michael Fassbender
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Actor
Break Up
Smile
Breakup
Character
Flawed
Laughing
Shed
Tears
Thinking
Why Not
People Matter Right
Provoke
Script
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Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great writing. If there's something about the script, that's what I go for, although I know that that doesn't always translate because sometimes it's about the vision of the director.
Sally Hawkins
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Film Actress
Best Good Great
Script
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I'm always going with my visceral reaction when I read a script. I am more drawn to characters who are conflicted, and in developing a character exploration. If it's a baddie, I'm rarely intrigued, and if it's a goody two-shoes - too much of a good guy - I'm not, either.
Alexander Skarsgard
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Actor
Developing
Exploration
Good Guy
Intrigued
Too Much
Visceral
Good Character I Am
Good Character Always
Drawn
Either
Rarely
Script
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I think the takeaway is 'The Guest Book' is incredibly unexpected in every way. I know, when I was reading the script, I was surprised with every page turn. It's kind of an anthology, and it really pushed the envelope. It's a risk-taking show, and it's just a lot of fun.
Kellie Martin
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Television Actress
Anthology
Book
Fun
Reading
Risk-taking
Unexpected
Envelope
Guest
Incredibly
Page
Script
Surprised
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