Usually the script is much more funny than the film turns out to be, in my case. The script is almost like a comic book but when you start making it, for some reason the film gets very serious.
It`s the only time my education has come in remotely handy. -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.
On Phantom. . . I listened to the music while I was reading the script. And it had just blown me away. I really. . . I was so excited about it. It's been a long time since I really got so excited about something.
[Noah Hawley] just a fantastic writer. It's always about the script, it's always about the book; it always is. If it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage. That's what attracted me to him first and foremost.
There are scripts that have come our way that are much more likely to be hits, but we don't really think that way.
The first time someone called me a role model, I remember thinking, 'What does that mean?' But I feel aware of it when I'm reading scripts.
Suzanne [Collins] was very involved in the development of the script. She wrote the first draft. She was very involved with Billy Ray, when he wrote his draft.
I don't see how a person can be sensuous - unless they're just, you know, following some kind of script - without being vulnerable.
I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.
For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.
I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
I don't like things to be overcharged, because otherwise everyone starts getting nervous. I try to be very well organized. When I write the script, everything is already in there, like the decoupage.
It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.
The script - and a good one - tells you everything that you need to know.
The devil's script sells you the heart of a blackbird.
You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember.
I know it's boring to say this but I always start with the script. I mean if it's well written and it's a character that I haven't necessarily played before.
[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.
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.
You're looking for the best way of shooting it, but sometimes the best way of shooting it is changing the script.