#scripts

I don't have a stack of scripts. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#scripts #stack

I'd always envied actors who got to play real people or got to do research. I've always just had these scripts where, I mean not in a bad way, but it was right on the page. ↗

— Luke Wilson

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If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.' ↗

— Dick Wolf

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Animation scripts tend to be much more descriptive and are lighter on dialogue. ↗

— Douglas Wood

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I know a lot of people in the business recommend the many Story Structure seminars being offered here, but I point to them as the single biggest contributor to lousy scripts. ↗

— Douglas Wood

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We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies. ↗

— Marilyn Hacker

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My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

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Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with. ↗

— Jay Hernandez

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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

#doing #during #fire #getting #going

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

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