Scripts Quotes

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

I'm reading scripts, desperately wanting to work. I've set a couple of things up for next year.

Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

You're always looking for good scripts and when they're not always forthcoming you go mad.

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

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.

I've got one outlet now - music - and it's great to be able to sign someone that excites me. I'd like to also be able to do that with the scripts I get or books or TV shows... I'm not going to limit myself.

Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.

I feel that I can't do certain things that have sent to me, scripts, because I think that really - I've been June Cleaver for so many years, because we went back, you know, and we did - 20-year hiatus we had - and we went back and made 105 new ones. And so I really feel very strongly that there are certain things I won't do.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.

The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

I was reading through endless junk scripts that were being sent my way. Typically the roles were to play his wife or his girlfriend - leading roles for women were few and far between.

My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

Now it's a fully realized production but for the fact that we're holding our scripts in our hand and some of us used them, and some of us didn't and you have to by union rules hold the script. You don't have to use them but you gotta hold them.

I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

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

I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts.

When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport.

I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether it's a TV show, a movie, whatever. That's really my No. 1 criteria.

Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.

Hmm, limelight... No, I'm not Sienna Miller or Angelina Jolie. I'm very lucky and happy, but I still find it very difficult to get good scripts and good roles. It's really a jungle out there.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

It's not like I have boxes of scripts arriving at my door.

Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it.

I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really.

Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows.