"You are the vibrational writers of the script of your life, and everyone else in the Universe is playing the part that you have assigned to them."
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"I read a ton of scripts. I read a lot of scripts, and you read one, and first of all, you felt like you read it in 14 minutes, because you're turning the pages so fast you can't wait to see what's going to happen."
"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 love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it."
"And when I'm on set, I'm just thinking about the script and of working. I think I've stayed focused on the work so much that I haven't really noticed my life start to change except for I've gotten busier."
"If it's a terrible script, it's a terrible bore."
"Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday."
"It's a lot of work to read a crummy script."
"I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you."
"When what's around you - such as scripts, or like me being on the show and playing 18, now me doing this film playing 18 - it's kind of been what's been there for me."
"I don't know if the scripts are changing so much. I mean, I've been working for almost 25 years and made over 40 films and I worked with my first female director, on a feature, "Planetarium". And it's still the only one."
"I do enjoy that folks [ Howard Ashman, Tim Rice and Chad Beguelin] really get into [ Aladdin ] because I enjoy getting it. I love it where you just get to go nuts. Ninety percent of what you hear, he wrote. There's ten percent that he let me play around with in the studio and actually put in the script if it was funny enough."
"It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with."
"I do whatever [comedies] I'm attracted to. It's like the woman who stands out in the crowd, who for some reason you notice, that's the one you're supposed to dance with at that time in your life. That's just what it is with scripts... they find you when you're emotionally in the right place to do them."
"But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show."
"For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script."
"I don't like things to be overcharged, because otherwise everyone starts getting nervous. I try to be very well organized. When I write the script, everything is already in there, like the decoupage."
"It's not that I'm not a horror fan, it's just that the horror scripts I've been sent have been rubbish and obvious. Because they usually are in horror films - it's just about scare factor. You're always one step ahead, you know who's going to die first, you know who's going to survive, you're going to get a jump every twenty minutes."
"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."
"You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character."