Quotes About Movie Scripts

#1. I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the '80s and '90s, but I was getting all these movie scripts.

Hulk Hogan

#2. Yeah, the main goal when I'm writing [movie scripts] is to entertain myself. It's supposed to be funny, but then a funny idea can be turned into something else.

Quentin Dupieux

#3. Hollywood is in control of politics and has imported their action-filled movie scripts into the real world.

Kim Dotcom

#4. Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.

David Mamet

#5. It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

Jessica Lange

#6. I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.

Manuel Puig

#7. For all filmmakers: True originality is the key, only direct your own unique movie scripts, be a megalomaniac and not give a damn.

Tom Six

#8. I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

Hume Cronyn

#9. I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

Jesse Eisenberg

#10. Well Getaway was a script that was submitted to us for production and I read it and thought it would be a cool movie to make.

Courtney Solomon

#11. And when I first started writing, it was literally in acting classes. And what would happen is now it's really easy to get scripts and stuff but back then, you know, oftentimes you'd buy the novelization to a movie if you wanted to get an idea of what the scene, you know what happened in the scene.

Quentin Tarantino

#12. The script is a blueprint for the film - there are very few bad scripts that make good movies. If you really like the character and understand the utility it serves within the movie, that's a part of my process.

Topher Grace

#13. I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn't have enough life experience at that point to write a movie.

Todd Phillips

#14. In the end, whether I write the script or, in this case, somebody else did, there's a point where you let it go when you're making a movie. You just have to. The thing that you shoot is not what you imagined in your head - it never is exactly that. And it shouldn't be.

Todd Haynes

#15. I find that most of my scripts have a lot more scenes than most films, so the average movie might have 100 scenes, my average script has 300 scenes.

Steven Zaillian

#16. My scripts are always filled with notes. I like to just analyze everything from the point of view of the whole picture, of the movie, my whole picture.

Geena Davis

#17. I think the part I enjoy most is reading the scripts and screening films because I'm a bookworm and a movie buff.

Rebecca Eaton

#18. 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.

Steve Martin

#19. 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?'

Alex Pettyfer

#20. I'm a great fan of Michael Mann and when he asked to see me I couldn't believe it. I was very happy. I met him and I read this beautiful script. I didn't know anything about Dillinger. I fell in love with the movie and Michael Mann.

Marion Cotillard

#21. 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.

Nora Ephron

#22. I was originally casted to be in the Superman movie but I read the script and realized that it was mysteriously similar to my screenplay for Zach Braff the Movie.

Zach Braff

#23. Inspired music arises from an inspired movie which arises from an inspired script.

Hans Zimmer

#24. The hackers who hacked into Sony have leaked the upcoming script for the new James Bond movie. Some of the executives said the news left them shaken but not stirred.

Conan O'Brien

#25. A writer/director is a tough thing to gauge when someone hasn't directed a movie before. You just don't know. Sometimes it will be a great script that's written beautifully, and then the director who has also written it does not have the facility to translate it.

Richard Ayoade

#26. At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

Louis Garrel

#27. When I initially read the script, it goes inside and comes out different things even without commenting on any stuff. And then, those pieces are taken out and then spread out through the movie.

A.R. Rahman

#28. Everything you look at now, the scripts that come in that you look at, the television scripts are way better than the movie script. The talent is going to television.

Denis Leary

#29. When I read a script, I am already in the movie with my music, and I can dive into a world that I haven't seen before.

Volker Bertelmann

#30. 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.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#31. There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.

Cary Fukunaga

#32. A script is just a script. A good script can be a bad movie, so easily. It's the process that makes it good. You need a good script, don't get me wrong, but you need all those other things to make a good movie. You really do.

Joel Surnow

#33. You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.

Douglas Booth

#34. A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.

Casey Affleck

#35. I have no interest in ever making a movie I didn't write. If they were going to take my house away, then I guess I might have to. But my agent knows not to even bother sending me the scripts.

John Waters

#36. Yeah, when you're making a film, the book is a good tool, but once you have the script and you're making a movie, you have to let go of the book.

Jennifer Lawrence

#37. I wanna do a movie! Anything that I connect with, really. I read scripts, I've taken some acting lessons, and I feel like that's definitely my next goal.

Avril Lavigne

#38. I love the gangster genre, but how many gangster movies are there? If I get a good gangster movie script, I'll do it.

Graham King

#39. I have been sent three or four scripts for television series, but there wasn't anything I really wanted to do. I want to tell a good story, whether it's a TV show, a movie, whatever. That's really my No. 1 criteria.

Jorge Garcia

#40. Nobody is out to sabotage an entire script and do an improvisational experiment of a movie, but when they're feeling something in the moment, let them make it their own. That's what makes them great actors.

Dan Fogelman

#41. 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.

Josh Radnor

#42. For me, it was the challenge of doing a movie that is in one location. Usually, there are a few scripts obviously always going around with stories that happen in one location.

Jaume Collet-Serra

#43. 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.

Jennifer Lawrence

#44. When I'm working on a movie, I'm in my trailer playing guitar. And then on the road, I read scripts and think of ... it just keeps both fires burning. I kind of need both.

Bryan Greenberg

#45. People think you're like The Godfather, waiting for scripts to come in. But, you're hustling, you're desperate, you're panicked and you're horrified. The movie you think you're going to do next, you don't do. The movie you think you're never going to do, you make.

Guillermo Del Toro

#46. I stick to the script, I memorize the lines, cause life is movie that I've seen too many times.

Lil' Wayne

#47. Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.

Ben Affleck

#48. I've always sensed what a script should sound like - even before the movie's been made

David Puttnam

#49. When I'm working on the scripts or working with the other actors or rehearsing with the director, and when the director is cutting the movie, and we've shot the scene, the director is not looking at the visual effects.

Andy Serkis

#50. You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building.

Bruce Campbell

#51. Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.

Peter Dinklage

#52. It's one of the most beautiful scripts [Brokeback Mountain] I've ever read, and it was Ang Lee, and at the time Heath [Ledger] was a friend of mine - before we even shot the movie - and always sort of alluring to me.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#53. The moment that you start to read a script, you're watching the movie in your mind, and that's the one moment that you have. Then, you go off to make the movie and you become so lost in it.

Michael Angarano

#54. Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest.

Berenice Bejo