The best author is a dead author, because he’s out of your way and you own the play. Take what he has given you and use it for what you need.

The only thing approaching art in a movie is the script.

I’ve never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you.

I know that I wouldn’t mind going back to work if I could find the right script and the right crew to work with.

Acting is in everything but the words.

She was like a landscape you see from the train, and you want to stop just there.

you will have a ready script – and asked by it to act directly.writer is the moment,the time.

Your job as actors is to understand the size of what you say, to understand what’s beneath the word.

I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.

Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.

When you read a script, you get a feeling from it.

I keep seeing this ad on TV. It talks about teachers. Thank you for teaching me. Thank you for changing my life. They all look happy. Have they always been this happy? Did they have...

I don’t worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

When ‘Hung’ got canceled, I was available for pilot season, and ‘Arrow’ was the first thing I auditioned for. It wasn’t the first script that came to me, but it was my first audition.

It is the ego’s purpose that makes everything seem dis-united and like separate events. The constant purpose is the thread that ties all events together. The script is really a continuous thing, rather than discreet...

For any role, I pretty much always go to the script, first and foremost.

Sometimes, in the ancient writing samples found in the Indian subcontinent, we find that a mixture of Harappan and Brahmi features has been used. This definitely points towards a continuous evolutionary process that transformed the...

Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn’t in the script. It was something that I came up with.

What we need, is a break out. Out of our lives, out of Seattle, out of the dumb script of girl.

Considering the fact that the Harappan script may have been proto-Brahmi, the underlying language to be expected should be Sanskrit, or proto-Sanskrit, or derivatives of Sanskrit. Many of the rules of evolution that apply to...

If you are present, then you can see that you give yourself presents in each moment that you can unwrap and thoroughly enjoy – the amazing world around us that we can explore, each incredible...

If I’m having a bad day in rehearsal, I’ll sleep with my script.

Max never intended to be messy with his writing, which he could read just fine, years later if necessary, even if his teachers couldn’t. He merely found that his active mind tended to move too...

I think every script I read has something that sends me into a state of panic but that usually makes me want to do it.

Secure writers don’t sell first drafts. They patiently rewrite until the script is as director-ready, as actor-ready as possible. Unfinished work invites tampering, while polished, mature work seals its integrity.

I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.

Nowadays films and television are what I like to call “Microwave Media”. I like mine in the oven, giving the production time to simmer; get the juices flowing, and cooked to perfection. And that takes...

I handed them a script and they turned it down. It was too controversial. It talked about concepts like, ‘Who is God?’ The Enterprise meets God in space; God is a life form, and I...

Just like a script, you need to keep a business plan to yourself.

I’m used to changing a lot of the dialogue. But if I feel like the script is working, I don’t want to mess with it.

‘Looper’ was a wonderful script. Rian Johnson is the real deal and a really talented filmmaker.

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

If it were all in the script, why make the film?

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

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don’t you?

When I can see things through the lens of the director, it’s like being able to see the whole puzzle – it’s not just about my role, but the whole script.