Amanda Seyfried Quotes

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.

A good script and perfect casting, that's 90 percent of the work.

I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.

If you get a bad script, then you start expending energy trying to make a silk purse of a sow's ear. When the script's as good as those on 'Game of Thrones,' say, I don't think there was a single occasion where any of us thought there was a bad scene.

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

Just making a good movie is hard to do.

The quality of television is becoming so good from an actor standpoint, where you get to do these amazing scenes with amazing directors and cinematography.

For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.

If the script is not good, the film will not work.

The storytelling in a movie is in the cut; it's in the edit. It's not an actor's job, really. Your job is such a tiny little thing, and I love the feeling of juggling or tightrope walking.

You can have an amazing director and terrible script, and the film's not going to be great. But if you have the most incredible script and an okay director, you could still get a really good film.

You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.

A movie is a filmed rehearsal in a way. The audience doesn't know that because you're taking out the things that don't work. There's no comparison to the theater because it's live. But making a movie is just as challenging and exciting, I find. A movie is pure process. The theater is the result of process.

Consistency is very important when you're making films.

I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

I really want to work in a movie with Quentin Tarantino. I think he makes fantastic movies. I love people that create a different reality for the actors to live in.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

I think making a good film shot is joyful.

I have a great little camera, and I had a theory that if the story is interesting, it doesn't matter what medium you shoot it on. You just have to make a good film.

I read the script for Wonder Boys, and I said that was almost perfect, it was so classy, cool and funny. It's a really specific thing. We stuck to it, it turned out good and a lot of people liked it.