Film Script Quotes

I know how to write a movie. I know how to direct a movie.

When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible, contemporary period film.

I'd love to do Tamil movies whenever the right script comes by.

Actors usually feel skeptical about double hero films because one character might overshadow the other, but the late scriptwriter K. Subash has penned 'Karuppu Raja Vella Raja' in such a way that Vishal and I have equal scope in the film.

I was in a very lucky position to be able to consider studio films and had decided to not go that route for a very long time until I read a script that I loved called 'Aeon Flux.'

I would play the lead role in films which have scripts that suit me.

Robert Bolt's storytelling is the kind that I grew up with and aspired to.

The director [Elfar Adalsteins] came to me through my agent and I had a read of the script [of the "Sailcloth]. I thought immediately this is someone who is writing for the cinema. Not having to go through the tedious business of taking something from literature and making that awful leap that is so difficult to make anyway, from literature to cinema. It's refreshing to be able to deal with a subject like that, to be written where the driving force is the image on screen and you don't need any words. The more that we can do that [in film], the better.

I wrote 'Mud' for Matthew McConaughey and had never met him.

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.

Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.

When I read the script for 'War Horse,' I was in absolute tatters.

'Writing' is the wrong way to describe what happens to words in a movie. First, you put down words. Then you rehearse them with actors. Then you shoot the words. Then you edit them. You cut a lot of them, you fudge them, you make up new ones in voice-over. Then you cut it and throw it all away.

I mean, Deadpool has a script, but it's a very complicated process to find the right filmmaker. We'll see.

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

During the late '50s, I had worked on the script of Ben-Hur in an office next to that of the producer Sam Zimbalist.

Once I finished writing the script, I couldn't find my Pandi. It was actually little difficult to cast for the role. One fine day, when I was shooting for 'Vada Chennai', Raj Kiran's name just popped into my head.

Initially, I wanted to be a writer for other people. 'Hereditary,' I was writing it from a woman's perspective.

I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.

I had written the script a few years earlier for Paramount, then later got hired with Sam [Fuller] to write an entirely new script that he was going to direct. And that was one of the great thrills of my professional life.

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.

'The Full Monty' was my first feature script, and I wasn't that skilled at it.

The most important thing is the script.

If I have to choose between a Bollywood film and Pakistan film, it may sound cliched, but I will go with the script first. And if both the scripts are equally good, then I will choose a Pakistan film.

Axone', of course, was on racism, but it was also a kind of representation that hadn't happened ever before of the Northeast and the people from there. It was a nicely-written script; it was funny.