Top 555 Scripts Quotes

It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.

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

I have a very good memory for scripts. I can watch a show I like once, then remember about 90% of the script. But ask me who was in it, and I wouldn’t have a clue.

When we design for non-Latin, we always aim to create a rhythm and texture that is sympathetic so when you have the two scripts running side by side, they create, ideally, the same tonal value on the page.

After listening to several scripts, I zeroed in on director Hanu Raghavapudi’s script and that’s how ‘Lie’ happened.

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.

I don’t think people realize how many scripts you write that go nowhere.

J. J. Abrams is a director that I’ve admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote – including ‘Regarding Henry,’ which I was in.

Everyone is trying to do something that hasn’t been done and that’s a really good thing. You can only do so much with a story and some scripts don’t give you the opportunities and other scripts do give you the opportunities to do things that haven’t been done before.

If I were actually Homer Simpson, I’d be getting scripts out the wazoo.

My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn’t leave a whole lot of room for books.

Scripts were rather scarce in 1968. We did a lot of Amiri Baraka’s plays, the agitprop stuff he was writing. It was at a time when black student organizations were active on the campuses, so we were invited to the colleges around Pittsburgh and Ohio, and even as far away as Jackson, Mississippi.

The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts… I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.

It’s a weird thing when you spend your life trying to find these great scripts and great parts. You are reading scripts, you are traveling the world, you are hassling your agent. You are trying to find that script.

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.

I’ve been very fortunate with the scripts I’ve had and the people I worked with.

When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.

Soon after ‘Paruthiveeran’ I was flooded with scripts that were almost the same as the award-winning film. I had offers from Malyalam, Telugu and Kannada filmmakers. But I had to be firm and in fact I realized that now I had to be more careful with my choice of films because I have raised the audience expectations.

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

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.

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

I get a lot of action scripts. I get low-budget vehicles that will end up right on the video shelf. I want to do movies that I want to talk about, that I’m proud of, but I also want to make a living.

The more I read scripts, the more I learn about scripts, basically.

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.’

White Lines’ is without a doubt one of the best, most imaginative, brilliantly bonkers scripts I’ve ever had a chance to work on.

There are very few parts, and very few scripts, that acknowledge women as sexual beings, or simply just recognise that women have desires.

I start each of my scripts by going on a journey of painstaking research and discovery, much as I do a piece of long-lead journalism.

Certain scripts require an ensemble cast. I’m absolutely fine with that. I will not deprive myself of the chance to be part of a good film because of insecurities or fear of losing my market. But my role must be well-defined.

No. I didn’t look at the last few scripts. I didn’t want to read them because I’m a ‘Breaking Bad’ fan. I wanted to experience it with everyone.

I will do a film if there is a good scope for acting. I am looking for good scripts.

I always get scared. I can’t read scripts. I’m scared, scary movies and stuff.

I am fortunate that I get sent scripts and get to meet people I would never have met had I not done ‘Harry Potter.’ But I feel I had to come out of that show and prove that I am not a one trick pony and can do other stuff.

The Telugu industry and their scripts are extremely nice.

How do you top ‘Mormon?’ I get sent scripts all the time and I don’t know what I would do next. What do you do after that? So I think if you do see me onstage, you’ll see me in something dramatic, maybe, or you’ll see me try my hand at something else. Perhaps fail, terribly, but try.

I now go to my dad’s grave to read scripts and learn lines. It’s the most peaceful place. I go to see him, and it’s fantastic.

I try to read everything that’s sent me – play scripts, movie scripts – but I’ve had to make a rule. If the author hasn’t grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

I don’t even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it’s, like, I don’t need one more set of opinions.

I’ve auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.

I’m not one of those shoppers where I go to a store and I’m like, trying it on, I’m not sure, ‘Oh, can you put this on hold?’ No. It’s either love it or hate it. And it’s the same way with scripts. I usually know within the first 10 pages. If I don’t latch into it by then, then it’s not going to happen.

All my films have been larger-than-life. And since I’ve sat on almost all the scripts of the films I’ve produced, I do not compromise on aesthetics and visuals that could add to a scene.

Like in ‘Eastenders’ they can write coronavirus into the scripts, so people can actually be socially distancing. But if you’re in a sketch show where you’re on top of each other, doing stupid things, you can’t really make it work.

I can say yes to some directors without even reading a script. But the first-time directors I’ve worked with, the scripts have not been perfect, but they had something that I liked.

I’m lucky enough that financially I don’t have to feel obliged to go for the bigger stuff. I like the stories and scripts to dictate if I want to do them.

I’ve got a room full of scripts. They go to the ceiling. I can’t even hardly walk into it anymore. Most are original, and there are some adaptations like ‘Man’s Fate.’

The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the way Europeans were able to imagine the story of humanity, destroying centuries of received authority about the past with repercussions as important for our understanding of time and history as the geological studies of the same period.

Ahana does lots of things; that’s the problem with her. She is a fashion designer and is also writing some scripts. She doesn’t want to do the regular commercial films. So she has decided that only if she really likes something, then she will take it up.

I came to Hollywood and felt myself an outsider, and I was sent all these action thrillers and superhero scripts.

I am a greedy actor: I want all the scripts to come to me. So I do all the good films which come my way, even if it means I’ll rest a little less.

I love the feeling I get when I’m on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.

The best thing for me is, when I’m not working, is to be at home and to have a script or two scripts is better, and to be just walking around the house and just thinking about the lines.

I would write scripts and little plays and perform them in the living room for my family when I was little with my brother until my mom said, ‘Alright, you need to go do it somewhere else other than the house.’

If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they’re just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It’s like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need the script. I could build the house, but I have to know how.

I’d like to produce more films in Hindi, provided I get good scripts.

My M.O. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I’m in this wonderful position to be able to do that.

The absolute base-level thing that you do as a new screenwriter is send out query letters. Literally, you just say, ‘Hi, Mr. So-and-So,’ and you give them a one-sentence description of one of your scripts. You send it out to a list of people you found on the Internet.