Scripts quotes
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"I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book."
"There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance."
"I can't stand innuendo. If I see one in a script I whip it out immediately."
"Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life."
"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."
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"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."
"'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest scripts ever written. It didn't even get nominated for an Academy Award."
"And I sit in my jacuzzi with my script."
"I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films."
"I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become."
"The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird."
"I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director."
"When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script."
"I always want to read the script before I totally commit."
"A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture."
"I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, "There's no masturbation in the DC Universe." To which my reaction was, "Well, that explains a lot about the DC Universe.""
"Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing."
"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."
"Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different."
"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."
"I do well to interpret scripts to the best of my ability so even if I'm given a monster to play a love scene with, I will."
"Knowledge is honestly everything. It's not just books and staying behind a desk and having a diploma. There's also traveling and knowledge about people, and what I do and scripts and books."
"The script is simply a series of notes for the film."
"The script and the performances and the style all clicked."
"When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write..."
