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Everybody knows Aaron Sorkin's scripts. There's a huge amount of lines. There's a huge amount of interchange. You gotta do a lot of learning to be able to get it up to pace.

Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.

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

I feel like, as a filmmaker, I'm at my strongest when I write the script and when it comes from me, out of whole cloth. My best work has always been self-generated.

Nobody is out to sabotage an entire script and do an improvisational experiment of a movie, but when they're feeling something in the moment, let them make it their own. That's what makes them great actors.

The hackers who hacked into Sony have leaked the upcoming script for the new James Bond movie. Some of the executives said the news left them shaken but not stirred.

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

Something like Shakespeare in Love, which became such an established hit that it now seems like a foregone conclusion... but it really wasn't. The script was around for a very, very long time and had people chickening out all the time.

You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

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.

I don't have a stack of scripts.

I'm blessed with learning easily. I've always had a good thing about memorizing quickly, and I just leave the script kind of open somewhere, and as I walk by I'll just take a swipe at it and then go on about my business and pretty soon it sticks.

Writers would submit scripts to me, and if I liked one well enough to submit to magazine editors, I had the know-how whether the story was good or bad.

Writing film scripts is the hardest thing in the world. A script has to go to five or six drafts, and you need the feedback of other people and to keep coming back with a fresh eye, honing it down.

I don't have tons of scripts where I don't know what to choose and I'm trying to calculate. It's either I read something and I have an impulse to do it, or in meeting someone, I want to work with them, but it's always been very obvious.

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.

A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.

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

There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

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.

It's a lot of work to read a crummy script.

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

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

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

I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.

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

I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.

There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.

If Gucci handbags were still in fashion Greenaway would carry his scripts in them.

I had written the script for Juno and apparently Steven Spielberg had read it. I can't just call him Steven, that's weird... Mr. Spielberg had read it and he liked it. He asked me if I would write this television show for him and I said, 'Yeah!'

Highland has changed my entire way of working with scripts. I use it every day.

I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.

After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.

I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

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I've always sensed what a script should sound like - even before the movie's been made

I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great, in that way.

Even though I am a lifelong 'Doctor Who' fan, I've not played him since I was nine. I downloaded old scripts and practised those in front of the mirror.

It would make me so happy if I didn't have to write the scripts of my own books.

I've been doing this for seven and a half years. I've been just bustin' it, trying to break in as an artist in this business. For me, it's still just about the work. I get the scripts and I'm all about that. I don't really even have an idea what that's going to be like.

The studios don't make stars. Great movies, great scripts make stars. I never had a chance to grow through my roles, I never had an acting class in my life. What the studios had were visionaries who cared about the movies, about making good movies.

The system can be set up so that lower-level security breaches stay at the bottom of the response ladder. If critical security breaches occur, the system can immediately initiate top-level response, including officer command scripts that tell the utility police officer exactly how to respond to the situation on their display monitor.

There are scripts I've read where I really like the character but there might be some content that I'm uneasy with. You have to make the decision whether you want to put that out there.

There are scripts when you fall so much in love with your character. And if you are lucky and offered this part, you should not tempt your fate and go to the greatest extent to be/to play this character. If you have an opportunity to do that and you do not, it's shameful.

I've sold scripts in the past, and also a TV pilot that didn't get made, to Fox. But yeah, I've been writing for a while.

I've noticed a few singing references in the scripts so far, so it's possible,

I've read a hundred fantastic scripts that didn't pan out as films, and I completely put that on the directors. I've also read some mediocre scripts that have ended up being amazing, and I credit that to the directors. They're the storytellers. If you don't have a good storyteller, you really have nothing.

The scripts that are ready will go first. It's kind of a horse race. We will make the movies by the quality of the script and which is ready to go first.

The scripts that I've been getting are of epic proportion. People want me to lead the big armies.

to start creating my own projects. People want to work with me but there aren't that many scripts being written for me.

We've heard some concerns, and we've been troubleshooting, We're satisfied. We think Express Scripts is a very good partner.

We've had three or four scripts written, and we've never quite nailed what we wanted to do. We've got a new writer. A very famous writer, a Pulitzer Prize winner indeed. I can't name him because I don't know the situation at the moment. You can't tell someone's life story in two hours on film.

Brenda Hampton has already begun work on scripts for the second half of the season. These episodes will be filled with emotion and life-changing events.

Reading scripts or commercial copy isn't a problem for me, so I can really focus on the acting instead of it being secondary.

On TV, you never know where it's going. They may even lie to you about where it's going. You never really know because the scripts come in every couple of weeks or so.

The thing about not reading scripts and my wanting a director to tell me a story is a risk I need to take. I need that real fear.

Express Scripts indicated interest, and we responded. It's something that could be a benefit to the state of Illinois.

There have been actresses who transitioned and nobody knew. But for me, with everybody knowing my history, it will be harder. I'm sure there are some great scripts calling for an ultra-glamorous woman. And I'm prepared to be ultra-glamorous.

Sometimes I feel like doing smaller budget stuff. When I did 'Young Adam', for instance, I'd come out of 'Black Hawk Down' and 'The Island', and I really wanted to be on a small film set. I wanted to be on something intimate and small again, and then 'Young Adam' cropped up in a pile of scripts I was sent.

speaks very truthfully. ... I loved the fact that it felt so honest. I respond to scripts regardless of where or when they're set; for me, it's about whether the characters ring true.

During the '90s, a lot of us in the indie film world were not making our money off our movies. We were screenwriters doing scripts for hire for studios.

I've been amazed watching people who are not ready with their scripts when they're getting a lot of attention.

As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.

Also, I thought the writing, on Chicago Hope in particular, was far superior to a lot of the feature-film scripts that I had been getting anyway.

All of my scripts are based on other people's novels. Generally, I consider myself as one who writes for theatre. I do not see film work as a continuation of writing for theatre. It is more of an interruption of the writing process.

A lot of scripts that I was given I didn't feel were right for me, because I didn't feel anything for them - I didn't feel like I was going to change in life and start directing.

A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.

People are submitting scripts to Sony Pictures. A few names have come up (to play Davis) but Don Cheadle?s name keeps coming up.

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We have seen some of the scripts and it is quite faithful (to the original),

You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.

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

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.

I learned a lot last year about the current difficulties in independent film making. Money is promised one minute and gone the next. I was bitterly disappointed about Scheherazade. It was one of the best scripts I have ever read.

I never dreamed I'd be a spokesman for anything. But Pac Bell just asked me. The money was OK; the scripts were fun because I had to do in 30 seconds what it takes a whole feature to do and because the dysfunctional family of agents, managers and lawyers who represent me said it was cool.

I froze for a bit, in truth-for about six months after the Oscars... There were lots of scripts landing on my desk.

I have one son who's a drummer and then one son writes scripts and another daughter is a model, so they're all doing their thing.

I most enjoyed doing 'Whites,' a show BBC2 cancelled after one series. It had some beautiful, witty, charming scripts and was one of the most positive ensemble pieces I've done. I thought the end result was really special. I'm still confused about why it didn't last longer.

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 met with them in June, and they said that out of 1,000 unsolicited, unagented scripts they look at each year, they publish maybe 10.

I'm looking for little movies that are good instead of picking scripts in pursuit of superstardom.

I'm reading scripts just like everybody else. Tin cup in hand, knocking on doors, trying to get a job. It's tough. They don't make as many films these days, and there's a lot of guys that are fighting for jobs.

I love to be a working actor, and I love to read scripts as they come in. If I find the script or character that is interesting, I want to transform myself into that character.

In some ways this update appears to go a little too far. We have some people who run customized forms and scripts in Outlook, and all that will be affected. We will really have to test this update.

If you are a certain kind of hands-on learner and have been in a writers room and know how scripts get made, and you know what pre-production is, then mostly it's making sure the actors get what they need, and you are providing creative oversight while allowing room for everyone else to own the material, too.

I'm first and foremost a company man, surprising as that is. I love Warner Brothers. That's where I have a deal. That's where I've been for years. So I don't really interact too much with other studios and do things with other studios and I don't necessarily read scripts from other studios.

Synergy is almost as if a group collectively agrees to subordinate old scripts andto write a new one.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

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

It's pilot season. And I've got all these scripts flying in.

I started in the era when Hollywood reveled in being the most cost-inefficient industry on the planet. They used to commission a hundred scripts for every one they made.

It's very unusual on 'Game of Thrones' for there to be a deleted scene because the scripts are pretty locked in. There's rarely a reason to say, 'Hey, we don't need this scene.'

I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside.

I have this group of friends that I'll send my scripts to before I send them to a large audience.

I have written a lot of films that didn't get made for one reason or another and I have one called The Women in Black that I hope will get made next year. And there were others that got made that I wrote under different names, I always think that better directors write the scripts because if you can't write, and you don't have anything to say, then what's the point of making films?

I'll literally pay three Hollywood readers who don't know me to read my scripts under the radar and give cold comments. And at the early screenings of my movies, I'll hand out questionnaires that can be filled out anonymously so people can be brutally honest because, to your face, they won't be.

I look at scripts as a whole, and often that gets me in trouble,