Scripts Quotes - Page 28

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

I had one well known director who kept saying, "Now Clint, this is what ...." And I'd say, "I know. I read the script. I'm the one who cast you as the director. Let me show you and you'll correct me if I'm wrong."

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

It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

Mine is studying script and being very academic and trying to be important.

A director should cast a person who fits into their script.

Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.

I've got a big closet of scripts, and a big stack of scripts on the side of my desk, because you get a whole bunch. Nothing's going to be perfect, and I realize that; but I am a perfectionist, so you go through a lot of stuff.

I find it really hard to even read another script while shooting.

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

For me, I've always been one that reads a script and has been ready, wiling and able to go out and fight for parts.

The scripts for Marco Polo are absolutely, positively fantastic. The challenge of making that show in China has proved to be as formidable as we feared. It's not like making a movie in China where, once you load up and you leave, you're gone. We have to be able to come back and capture something that's going to feel like a major feature film, on a television budget, and do it, hopefully season after season, so we are taking more time than the producers thought.

My mum reads every script before I go for it.

I just have so many scripts to read!

Every script has things that would draw me away or draw me towards it. But I just try and choose as wisely as possible - when I get to choose.

What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it mutates again.

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

On day I noticed that something happened that looked like a dramatization of the inner script of my psyche.

As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur.

I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

If you have script problems and you don't fix them by the time you shoot, your script problems are now 40 feet tall.

You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building.

The role always attracts me. Sometimes I can read something and I can barely see the rest of the script.

We kind of lost a lot of that and puppeteers were sticking to the script and we thought everything needed to get a lot funnier, so we thought we would go to a good improv comedy instructor.