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I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.
I'm not a big fan of table reads or sitting around a table and reading a script. I'd rather do it on set and do it for real.
Like, literally, when you get the script, you're like, 'Whoa, I hope the Black Hood isn't after me.' I guess we'll find out.
You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.
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.
I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.
I've been involved with some huge studio projects that have been bloody awesome. It all starts with a great script, doesn't it?
Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.
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.
I don't get rattled about the big things. I get rattled when I have to pick up my laundry, get gas in the car, pick up a script.
I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.
People always say a script will be 'brought to life in a magical way,' but for me that has been proven wrong time and time again.
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.
What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.
I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.
Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.'
Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.
My feeling about the movies is that most of them are terrible. If you don't have a decent script and a decent director, forget it.
Kevin's mind goes to extremely interesting places. Every time we get a script, I go, 'Oh my God, I really didn't see that coming'.
I opened the script to the 'The Wall,' and 15 minutes later I was done with it, and I loved the movie and wanted to be part of it.
'Scalped' No. 1 was only the third comic script I'd ever written. I really learned a lot about writing on the fly with that series.
As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.
I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.
I take a script and mull over it and underline the bits I want to emphasize. When I go to the set, I know exactly what I want to do.
I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.
When the script for 'Once' came my way, I had the thought that maybe it will last only a season. But I was willing to take that risk.
Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe.
I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.
I usually choose movies that I would want to see. I appreciate drama and if the right script came across my desk, drama you will see.
I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.
I get asked to give stuff to my dad. I'm, like, 'I'm not gonna pass your script to him!' You know? My dad's my dad. I'm not his agent.
Memorizing a playbook is like memorizing a script. When they change the script at the last minute it's like changing a play in a game.
It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.
I think it's always challenging to look at a script and make it your own while maintaining the sense of what the style of the show is.
The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
With 'Lost,' some members of the cast would literally open the script and find out that they were dead. I mean, that's quite sad, really.
When I'm shooting, I don't care who the star is. I have an actor playing a part, and I'm serving the script, not serving anyone's career.
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.
The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.
Why do only the Latin script when Nokia has a billion consumers? Typography is the bedrock of communication; it can really connect people.
Reading a newspaper is as important to me as reading a script. Sitting in a cafe and drinking coffee is as important as going for a shoot.
For me, it depends only on the script, the part I'm doing, and the people around me. It could be in Greenland or the Sahara. I don't care.
I have always believed that chemistry can't be created between two people. You either have it or you don't. The script can only enhance it.
When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible, contemporary period film.
Before we ever had a script or anything, I was attracted to the idea of playing a character that housed within himself two opposing traits.
I would be happy to do 'Sarfarosh 2'. The script should be as good as the first one. I don't want to destroy the goodwill of the first one.
A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.
On '24,' it says on the front page of your script: 'This script is for the production staff and cast. Please don't show it to anybody else.'
Each of our collections is like a movie. We write the script, and this Sicilian woman who has traveled around the world plays the lead role.
Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.