“ I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability… but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad. ”
- Andrew Greeley- Copy
- 899
“ There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
- 3.7K
“ If I've still got my pants on in the second scene, I think they've sent me the wrong script. ”
- Mel Gibson- Copy
- 1.7K
“ I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around. ”
- Christian Bale- Copy
- 923
“ Just get it down on paper, and then we'll see what to do with it. ”
- Maxwell Evarts Perkins- Copy
- 3.9K
“ But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be. ”
- David Cronenberg- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes. ”
- David Steinberg- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Trouble not thyself about the fate of thy writings: if what thou hast writ be worth preserving, no flood, however mighty, can sweep it away; if it be worthless, no ink, however prepared, can make it indelible. ”
- Ivan Panin- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me. ”
- Ben Kingsley- Copy
- 2K
“ And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true. ”
- Keanu Reeves- Copy
- 1.1K
“ I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind. ”
- Buster Keaton- Copy
- 3.6K
“ I look at scripts as a whole, and often that gets me in trouble. ”
- Cameron Diaz- Copy
- 1.4K
“ You know, the better scripts I've seen lately have been comedy scripts. ”
- Vince Vaughn- Copy
- 4K
“ I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch. ”
- Jimmy Fallon- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch. ”
- Count Basie- Copy
- 2.2K
“ These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one. ”
- Joel Coen- Copy
- 77
“ If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else. ”
- Tom Wilkinson- Copy
- 178
“ If I were to modernize the script, I would have betrayed existence. ”
- Bob Smith- Copy
- 1.8K
“ I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't! ”
- Hugh Grant- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. ”
- Carl Sandburg- Copy
- 2.6K
“ I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script. ”
- Ralph Fiennes- Copy
- 3.6K
“ I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script. ”
- Steven Soderbergh- Copy
- 738
“ Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas. ”
- Michael Caine- Copy
- 1.6K
“ My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work. ”
- Michael Caine- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I wrote a script that I thought had a lot of potential. ”
- David Cronenberg- Copy
- 3.1K
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