#scripts

I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films. ↗

— Neve Campbell

#films #find #i #independent #independent films

It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#get #hanks #his #me #nice

I hate it when, by page 30, I know what the lead's going to do and then what the bad guy's gonna do. Mostly it's just scripts by the numbers where nothing's surprising, nothing's interesting. ↗

— Don Cheadle

#going #gonna #guy #hate #i

Reality TV finds talented people. There are no scripts. The editing is what it's all about. Great editing makes those shows. ↗

— Pete Waterman

#editing #finds #great #makes #people

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

— Dick Wolf

#i #scripts #somebody #tell

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

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

#bad stuff #connect #continue #eventually #find

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#career #early #gotten #i #later

I want to aspire to something like what Denzel Washington does, which is try to find scripts written for white actors - or Jodie Foster, who reads scripts for male actors. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

#denzel #denzel washington #does #find #foster