Sasha Alexander Quotes

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

Even Dopehri,' if somebody has a bit of imagination, the way it's written, they will be able to see that it's a screenplay with dialogues.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

When I approach any script, I always try to find what I would relate to most in it.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.

I get so excited about reading a new script.

When we read a book, we have a blurry image that's kind of physical but blurry. But we have an emotional image also. We have an emotional connection to the character.

When a script moves me, I find that I immediately understand a character. Of course not completely, but I do understand.

The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything. And if you don't connect to that foundation, if you don't believe in that and feel that you wanna spend three, four months of your life exploring it, then all of the other elements are secondary.

For me, the first thing is script. When I heard 'Mom''s script, it really touched me and moved me. I felt really nice about the story. That's the reason I did the movie.

I'm kind of down for anything, as long as it's an amazing script that speaks to me, so I'm just constantly reading and constantly looking.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer.

'King of California' was just, I thought, a really great, fresh, original kind of script. I loved the tone, the mix of tragedy, comedy, and drama, and that it was a good part.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

I am not an analytical writer. Once I flesh out my characters and decide on the elements of my plot, the story unfolds in my head almost as though it was a movie reel.

I'm consistently blown away by 'Mad Men.' Having spent so much time in the writers' room, I'm cursed in that anytime I watch something, I'm always calculating what the writers are up to.

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.

'Safe' was a script that I read and flipped out for.

I find it easier to play someone who is so far from me because you create someone - you build this person based on the story and the script, with the director.

There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.

When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.