#scripts

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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I had a very insightful friend who warned me back when I stopped reading scripts, 'It's easier to change directions while you're still moving.' If you stop, it's harder to get started again. I still don't think I made the wrong decision, but he was right. ↗

— Debra Winger

#back #change #decision #directions #easier

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

— Dick Wolf

#i #scripts #somebody #tell

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

— Douglas Wood

#descriptive #dialogue #lighter #more #much

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

#biggest #business #contributor #here #i

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#i #lot #most #read #scripts

The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#comedies #down #funny #hundred #i

Hmm, limelight... No, I'm not Sienna Miller or Angelina Jolie. I'm very lucky and happy, but I still find it very difficult to get good scripts and good roles. It's really a jungle out there. ↗

— Eva Green

#angelina jolie #difficult #find #get #good

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

#fairies #gifts #good #good and bad #i

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

— Lasse Hallstrom

#character #character-driven #choosing #interest #key