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You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you. — Stephen Lang

I'm reading a lot of scripts. It makes my career decisions in that sense much the same way I consume media. — Jessica Pare

I would not have so many scripts being driven by demographics. The play's the thing - not the 18-35 year old male age group. — Stephen Tobolowsky

If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo. — Dan Castellaneta

I was a huge Muppet fan growing up. I want to bring it back to the early '80s Muppet movies, when the scripts could have been performed by humans. — Jason Segel

Since 'Heroes' started, I've probably had about 15 or 16 film scripts sent to me with Indian characters, and out of those, maybe one was good. — Sendhil Ramamurthy

American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that. — Shirley Henderson

I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke . — Michael Pitt

The moment there's a foreigner in a film it gives a novelty to the script. We make regional films and we need to hype our films. — Arin Paul

I did theater for a few years while I was in New York, but it was tough having to perform scripts worse than what I knew I could write. — Zach Braff

Take a favorite trick of yours and write a 'gestures script' how could you improve clarity [using gestures]. — Roberto Giobbi

I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject. — Jean-Pierre Jeunet

I don't know, just scripts randomly appeal to me. I'm not looking specifically at any genre. — Robert Pattinson

I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts. — Gina Bellman

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them. — Audrey Tautou

I always find it fun to read a script and then find the messages in the script because I believe every story has them. — Shailene Woodley

If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.' — Dick Wolf

The better the script, the less money there is. That's just the economics of the studio system. — Peter Hedges

I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films. — Neve Campbell

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing. — Al Pacino

Chaos Magick can be understood as the discovery and application of effective techniques and scripts to maximize human design for living. — Phil Hine

India needs better producers than screenwriters. No producer wants to invest in out-of-the way scripts. — Anurag Kashyap

If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused. — Lance Armstrong

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director. — Bette Davis

The padded outfits, the bad scripts, the phony-looking sets ... he dealt with it all. He had to. He was Superman. — Jerry Seinfeld

It's my job to write the best book I can each month and hand my scripts in. Everything else is beyond my control. — Jeff Lemire

Most of the guys like sticking to the script and doing just what's written. If they're exploring, they're exploring ways of doing the script. — Jon Turteltaub

It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go. — Leonardo DiCaprio

If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'. — Winona Ryder

Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life. — Bette Davis

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made. — Richard Stanley

I've always tried to stay away from playing Jews. I get like 20 Holocaust scripts a month, but I hate the genre. — Natalie Portman

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

I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do. — Chris O'Dowd

I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional. — Wolfgang Petersen

Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways. — Shannon L. Alder

I don't get a lot of romantic comedy scripts. — Ryan Reynolds

I watch the TV or learn scripts while on the elliptical - need to get back on it! — Bryan Batt

The work of the director is the work of constructing the shot list from the script. — David Mamet

In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing. — Josh Radnor

My closet is full of sad little scripts that didn't get made that have sad endings. It's very hard to get a movie made that has a sad ending. — Nora Ephron

Scripts don't get movies made. — Christopher McQuarrie

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.' — Douglas Booth

The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts. — Miranda Cosgrove

Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten. — Mel Gibson

People recognize me, I have scripts, and auditions. And I meet great people. — Berenice Bejo

I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, 'Oh, okay, babe,' and I see it in scripts all the time. — Casey Wilson

I went to film school, worked as an assistant, and wrote several scripts that haven't gotten made. — Lauren Miller

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist, — Brian K. Vaughan

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts. — Meryl Streep

I used to be a rabid reader, but now it's scripts or nothing - network television is quite relentless, and you can't drop the ball. — Robert Carlyle

I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life. — Joel Edgerton

I'd never read a piece of television where it's an hour script and it's perfect. — James Purefoy

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas. — John McTiernan

I'd like to think that I have a plan, but you can't really pick what scripts you're going to get or what movie is going to come along. — Jennifer Lawrence

There are two separate scripts for 'Mockingjay' parts one and two. It's definitely one story, but there are two totally distinct and separate scripts. — Francis Lawrence

When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories. — Jonathan Demme

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.' — Edie Falco

My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.' — Tom Stoppard

Good scripts are hard to find. — Daniel Craig

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later. — Tony Gilroy

Pilot scripts are particularly difficult to write because you have to introduce all the characters without it feeling like a series of introductions. — Tina Fey

There are so many scripts and they are fantastic. I think I would like to do something different, maybe something smaller. — Emma Watson

I'm lucky; people write scripts for me. — Catherine Deneuve

Am I getting better at making choices? Well, I think I might be getting better at reading scripts. — Benicio Del Toro

Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes. — John Travolta

Often, the scripts that we write that foretell our own doom are completely contrary to the scripts that God has written for us. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Of course I would change anything if John Cassavetes said so - it's his script. But he was very easy about that. — Gena Rowlands

I don't like scripts leaking. On the other hand, the more real attention a script gets, the better. — William Monahan

If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something. — Bill Murray

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should. — Stephen Dorff

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts. — Ryan Phillippe

I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading. — Amy Bloom

I've written plenty of scripts that sucked. — Nicholas Jarecki

I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me. — Denzel Washington

You're often trying to fix a script by shooting it. — Jon Turteltaub

The more I study history the more I realize how little mankind has changed. There are no new scripts, just different actors. — Richard Paul Evans

Scripts are corny and predictable. Real life is always better. — Lauren Conrad

As an actor, it doesn't happen often that somebody sends you a script that is first of all that good. — Patrick Huard

I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time. — Cliff Martinez

Sometimes reading scripts is terrible. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins! — Tara Strong

It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with. — Jim Carrey

I don't have a stack of scripts. — Bob Newhart

I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month. — Sidney Poitier

For me, most comedy scripts fail in the mechanical playing-out of the setup. They'll pay lip service to a moral lesson or a psychological progression. — Harold Ramis

A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture. — Samuel Fuller

Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday. — Al Pacino

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age. — Viola Davis

I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it. — Cary Elwes

At this point, I'm happy to be part of something special. As an actor I liked to choose scripts that I'm passionate about. — Liam Hemsworth

I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world. — Michael Arndt

The most important thing is the story. Not the script, but the story. — Richard D. Zanuck

I don't really look for a script and go, 'I need to do a thriller, so I'm going to do this.' I just read scripts and look for the best possible story. — Alex Pettyfer

If the young filmmakers ask themselves enough questions and come up with enough answers and get the scripts tight enough. — Jihan El-Tahri

I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them. — Nicole Holofcener

I don't read much fiction because I already read a lot of scripts, so I want to learn about the world. — Kirby Bliss Blanton

I love horror films, so I guess it's one of those things where I find myself interested in the script. — Elisha Cuthbert

Walking down the path of dreams, inner-self and listening to your heart are all different names given to your hidden scripts. — Santosh Kalwar