350 Quotes About Scripts

I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head.

But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.

Back then, it was more or less we couldn't change a line in our script. We weren't allowed to change lines. Today, actors change everything and won't do parts. It's very different today. Back then, the producers were in charge. Today actors are more in charge.

I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

What happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images...

When you're working on a script, every word that's on the page, somebody has to read it. Make every word count in your stories.

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.