"I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me."
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"I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, Oh, okay, babe, and I see it in scripts all the time."
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"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.""
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"I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not."
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"If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something."
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"You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building."
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"If you have script problems and you don't fix them by the time you shoot, your script problems are now 40 feet tall."
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"All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct."
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"I've always just shown up to set and said the lines, [but] I want to help develop scripts and help cast and help bring a visual tone to something."
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"This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior."
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"The script is the musical score, and everyone has to play off that score. Even I have to interpret it. The producers are there to eliminate obstacles to that interpretation."
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"You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with."
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"People kept passing our [ with Robert Ben Garant] script around, and suddenly we had this reputation as screenwriters, which we're not - we're sketch comedy guys."
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"You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done."
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"It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money."
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"I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance."
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"I have faith that a script is going to hit me like a ton of bricks, and when that happens, it's undeniable that I should choose the role."
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"Stand-up is really personal. It's not like somebody else is writing the script and you have to do what they write."
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"I don't see how a person can be sensuous - unless they're just, you know, following some kind of script - without being vulnerable."
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"Me and a friend literally had the idea for Wedding Crashers and pitched it, and it was already a script. They go, "That's funny! You should call it The Wedding Crashers." It was almost exactly like that ."
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