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My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.'
I do a lot of improvising when I'm writing, and I work very hard on the scripts... they are written very much in an actor-friendly way.
I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.
I remember reading 'Disturbia,' one of the first scripts I ever got, and I go 'Pfft, who wants to make a movie about a guy in a house?'
The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
I have a pile of scripts at home that I love. Some of them are hard to get made. We have to give up stuff. It's hard to get movies made.
As a producer, I want to back projects, talents, and scripts that speak to me not just as someone from the industry, but as an audience.
I never choose scripts on the basis of whether the girl is like me. I don't want to play myself... I live with myself, and it isn't fun!
I think, because I've been working for a while, I've been working since I was ten, I had the fortune of reading a lot, a lot of scripts.
I'm not really that keen on mainstream; I'm not interested in doing the normal films. I do tend to go for the quirky, different scripts.
Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts people can take more challenges.
To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.
Everyday life became infused with urgency as I tried to speak and act in ways that fit the holy script and glorified God in new contexts.
When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'
Females want other females to be really strong, so there are a whole lot of scripts that are basically just male parts renamed as a girl.
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.
For me, my rule in this industry is I've got to listen to my butterflies. So if I got butterflies, then those are the scripts I go after.
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.
I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!
I would say 80% of the scripts I get are dramas and not comedies or romantic comedies, which is funny because that's what I do every week.
The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.
I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading.
I learned so much by being an actor, and part of my sort-of development as a writer is big thanks to the scripts I read in my acting life.
Scripts didn't exist during my time in Bollywood, or, at least, I was never given one. I don't want to act at all and am happy in my cave.
I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.
There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.
It's overwhelming and humbling to be the recipient of a National Award, and I only hope to find scripts now that will solidify that honor.
When I listen to scripts, I never ask who my co-star is - instead, I ask about the characters and the producers of the particular venture.
There are very few parts, and very few scripts, that acknowledge women as sexual beings, or simply just recognise that women have desires.
'Police Story' had some of the best writing on television, and one reason for that is because most of the scripts were based on real cases.
I have always believed that chemistry can't be created between two people. You either have it or you don't. The script can only enhance it.
The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.
It just so happened that J.C.[Chandor] was a first-time feature director, and his script was exactly the kind of thing we were looking for.
Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.
Even if the script's well written there's something about the life of an improvisation that resonates better than a written word, sometimes.
I was happy when I read the script [The Bourne Ultimatum ] - the first version they sent me - to see that before, there's some humanity too.
For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.
In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing.
My closet is full of sad little scripts that didn't get made that have sad endings. It's very hard to get a movie made that has a sad ending.
I can get a script and go, "Well, I'd rather do stand-up." I don't hold movies in higher regard. I love making videos and posting. I love TV.
Most of the guys like sticking to the script and doing just what's written. If they're exploring, they're exploring ways of doing the script.
I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.
In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
I never read a book if I'm auditioning for a film based on it. I like to stick to the script only because that's exactly what I have to play.
You would not believe some of the scripts I have seen. I have read something like 160 that I've rejected, and I keep them all, for posterity.
I like taking up challenges. I prefer working with scripts that are different and veer from the tried and tested. So far, it's always worked.
Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.
Dream projects are always a funny thing to label. I guess just more exciting scripts in my inbox. Maybe an exciting script about John Lennon.
The greatest gift that an actor can have is good scripts because then you're relieved of the responsibility of trying to elevate the material.