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Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.
I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and practically.
I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers.
I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.
When people slave over those scripts and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for them, they don't usually want you to add farts.
People always say a script will be 'brought to life in a magical way,' but for me that has been proven wrong time and time again.
If I get good films, I would definitely do them. But most of the stuff that I get is not good at all. They were not good scripts.
When you work without a script, you are in a sense working in a much more improvisational way than when you are prepared totally.
Every joke is an experiment. When you sit, alone, and write a script, or just a joke, you really have no idea if it will succeed.
As an actor, you want to do the best job possible, and you want the best scripts possible because it makes life more interesting.
White Lines' is without a doubt one of the best, most imaginative, brilliantly bonkers scripts I've ever had a chance to work on.
I've seen [Lalla Ward] episodes of "Doctor Who." They're good, at least partly because the scripts were written by Douglas Adams.
I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success.
I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.
I still read scripts, and if something great comes along, that's great... but this is my day job. The Row is where I go every day.
So many times, you get sent scripts where it's, like, the token chick, where the woman is just there to serve the man in the film.
I find that dialogue is bad in most scripts. I just think there are very few writers that can capture the natural way people talk.
I knew what my scripts would say before I opened them: 'Enter Conchita.' I played handmaidens, Indian squaws, and Mexican dancers.
If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.
What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.
I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.
I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of something.
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 don't see how a person can be sensuous - unless they're just, you know, following some kind of script - without being vulnerable.
Audiences want to watch heroine-oriented films, and even writers are writing scripts for women. I am very happy to see this change.
I live in a small town in Connecticut, and they don't write scripts there, but I get them anyway because my agent is in Los Angeles.
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
As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.
A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.
So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.
I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.
Most of my movies are indies. The best scripts I can find are independent films. But I love big-budget movies, I love craft services!
So often, I read scripts and am like, 'This would never happen in real life. It's not trying to be funny. It's trying to be serious.'
What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it mutates again.
Hillary Clinton is a dead fish when it comes to being entertaining and alive. Without a prompter and a written script, she's nothing.
My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
We have written a draft of the script in every calendar year since [2010]. Quite honestly. Our Deadpool file is... full, to capacity.
I love reading scripts and offering notes and opinions. I'd like to be an advocate for the emerging filmmakers whom I'm working with.
I start each of my scripts by going on a journey of painstaking research and discovery, much as I do a piece of long-lead journalism.
'Skins' is actually a part of who I am as a person, so I was really focused on making sure the scripts and the story lines were right.
I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
It all starts with the script: it's not worth taking myself away from my family if I don't have something I'm really passionate about.
If theres something really, really bothering me about a script, then Ill say something, but otherwise I find my answers in the script.
For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.
I'd like to think that I have a plan, but you can't really pick what scripts you're going to get or what movie is going to come along.
With a sitcom, everyday you do a run through, and people are judging you, and the scripts are being changed nightly, nightly, nightly.
Some of the best projects I've worked on - 'Dexter,' the 'Bourne' series - were leaps of faith. I couldn't read the scripts in advance.
I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.
I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional.
For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.'