"I've always written my own scripts, I really like doing everything from the beginning and taking it all the way through, I've probably learned that from my dad."
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"I love all the voiceovers I do. I can't remember them all, but I seem to do them all of the time. And there's nothing easier because you just stand and read the script, and you don't have to act the way actors do. You don't have to be made up and put costumes on."
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"Finding a good script is really difficult and the scariest thing of all is when they say about a script that's not right, "we will fix it.." It's like before you get on the Titanic and you see a big hole. In process, it's too late."
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"I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself."
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"I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers."
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"I don't get a lot of romantic comedy scripts."
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"When you sign on to say, "Okay, yeah, let's develop this," usually that turns into, "Oh, he's doing it." But there's no script for some of these things."
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"I mean, Deadpool has a script, but it's a very complicated process to find the right filmmaker. We'll see."
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"I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script."
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"We read the [Dracula] scripts, but Jess [De Gouw] and I are completely taken out of the hunts and anything with Van Helsing. We're just living our lives, as our characters."
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"It was just hilarious how my first reaction was, "Oh, no, it's another vampire show. I'm not interested." And then, I read the script and thought it was brilliant."
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"It's very tricky to know when to stop. I think there are definitely moments where you feel that is the heart of a scene. When you're working on the script, you're looking for a handle on it."
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"It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached."
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"Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material."
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"Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them."
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"I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense."
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"I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of something."
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"I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like."
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"On Stranger Than Fiction, the script was so good that I stuck to every line because it was just such brilliant writing from Zach Helm that I felt like I really just want to shoot the page."
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"I can't even read a script. I've tried and it's painful to watch."
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