Script Writing Quotes
Collection of top 42 famous quotes about Script Writing
Script Writing Quotes & Sayings
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Never say you can't be a writer or a script writer, remember how well, characters in your dreams said their dialogues.
— Dipesh Nepal
I've done too many stupid things for there not to be movies made about me when I'm dead, so I might as well write the script.
— George Michael
I've worked with genius performers. Sometimes they created great work with a bad script ... but not often. Play it safe: write well.
— Jerry Juhl
The script for 'Thirteen' is tight, and not because of the now-famous six day writing spree, but more because it started out as 15 pages longer.
— Catherine Hardwicke
Take a favorite trick of yours and write a 'gestures script' how could you improve clarity [using gestures].
— Roberto Giobbi
Really I'm just an actor. The only difference between me and those cats in Hollywood is that I write my own script.
— Jimi Hendrix
Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place.
— The Script
When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.
— Adam Schlesinger
To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.
— Shiloh Fernandez
You call this a script? Give me a couple of 5,000-dollar-a-week writers and I will write it myself.
— Joe Pasternak
I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87.
— Steve Martin
I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.
— Steve Martin
The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.
— Tom Stoppard
I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
— J. Michael Straczynski
The writing of the script is a continual process. There's the first draft and then many, many re-writes here and there.
— Abdellatif Kechiche
'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.
— Jason Aaron
As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.
— Carlton Cuse
He'd have given a rare incunabulum, in good condition, to punch the face of whoever was writing this ridiculus script.
— Arturo Perez-Reverte
At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.
— Louis Garrel
I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script that has a woman at the center.
— Linda Woolverton
After all, to love somebody is to give them the power to hurt you, and nobody can hurt you if you're the only one writing the script.
— Donald Miller
Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.
— Andy Garcia
It's much harder to write a script that involves two people in a single location than 20 people in 30 different locations.
— Michael Haneke
I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors.
— Judd Apatow
Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say.
— Jessica Alba
You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script.
— John Taylor Gatto
Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.
— Darlene Craviotto
I didn't leave that crowd of ocelots to go back into it." [when asked to write the film script for The Osterman Weekend]
— Robert Ludlum
Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
— Olivia Wilde
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.
— Abbas Kiarostami
I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing.
— Gina Prince-Bythewood
I wish I was one of those people who could write script after script and pages and pages. I can only aspire to do that.
— Fred Armisen
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
— Michael Caine
Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.
— Michael Arndt
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.
— Jason Bateman