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Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasnt in the script. It was something that I came up with.
In major studio scripts, the girls are very similar. They're all witty and hot. I'm more of an oddball.
You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.
India needs better producers than screenwriters. No producer wants to invest in out-of-the way scripts.
But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect
There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.
It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.
I'm always trying to work on scripts. I'm pretty selective. Sometimes maybe too much because I'm broke .
I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
Most of the scripts that land on my desk are stuff you read and go, 'Is someone really gonna make this?'
If you want more diversity in the industry, you need diverse people writing scripts and developing them.
The role always attracts me. Sometimes I can read something and I can barely see the rest of the script.
All great scripts need not reach silver screen, and every good story can't be narrated in a 2-hour film.
Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
Some of the scripts I hear are completely useless. Sometimes, they're copies of very bad Hollywood films.
Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life.
Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.
I never thought I was very good at developing material. I grew up at the BBC where they sent you scripts.
And I don't think I'm giving away any secrets here, but there are a lot of terrible scripts in this town.
I decided to write [Collateral Beauty] on my own which made it the first spec script I wrote in 11 years.
I think I have been stereotyped as an action director in Hollywood, so all I got were the action scripts.
'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.
Whenever I get a good script, I don't care whether it's telly or theatre or big screen - I'm not bothered.
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
I want the scripts Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have time for. Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn't available? Call me.
I mean, Deadpool has a script, but it's a very complicated process to find the right filmmaker. We'll see.
I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.
Hollywood is in control of politics and has imported their action-filled movie scripts into the real world.
Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it.
Like any other actor, I also look for good scripts and want to portray some memorable characters on screen.
I've been fired from a situational comedy with a script they wrote specifically for me because of my voice.
For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots.
It's all about good scripts and roles that count. The language barrier does not make any difference for me.
On day I noticed that something happened that looked like a dramatization of the inner script of my psyche.
And I find it very easy to memorize the scripts, which are so close to conversations my husband and I have.
If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part.
Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head.
Take a favorite trick of yours and write a 'gestures script' how could you improve clarity [using gestures].
You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.
I could cover the gamut. It's cool though you go in for an hour, read the script, leave and you got a check.
I feel the best scripts are those that are originally written to be films: that is film in its purest sense.
I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.
Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work.
I screen tested for Training Day many years ago, which was David Ayer's script with Antoine Fuqua directing.
If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.
When you are shooting with a robot you can't improvise. You can't really... the script is kind of the script.
Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.
The original pilot script [ of "Mary and Jane"], we literally just wrote for fun. It was, let's just do this.
As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.