Original Script Quotes

When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy.

The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.

The first script was one of six original stories I had written in the form of two trilogies. After the success of Star Wars, I added another trilogy. So now there are nine stories. The original two trilogies were conceived of as six films of which the first film was number four.

We've become great friends with Rob Zombie, and I gave him my original script for Halloween for his 40th birthday. Like, Nicolas Cage was there with a shrunken head he brought as a gift, all these things, and I'm thinking, "What can I give Rob Zombie? This is very weird." And I just happened to look at my pile of scripts and I went, "My kids don't need all these. I think I'll give him my original Halloween script, since he told me that was his favorite movie, and I was his favorite actress from that time period." I said, "He deserves to have that."

For me, a script has to be convincing, bold, and experimental. It needs to overpower all my senses.

I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.

Some people, especially literary people, they think, 'I'll write this original script, and it will be full of ideas. I'll submit it, and they'll hire me for television.' That's not the case.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

I'll tell you God's truth: I think that this script that Neil has written - 'Odd Couple Two,' I think, is superior to the original one - to the first one.

I'm writing a film called 'Bug.' It's an original script, and it's not about killer insects. It's a thriller set in a high school. The bug of the title refers to a surveillance device.

I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths.

When doing a revival, you have a lot of people asking you questions about someone who played it before, and to me that's neither here nor there - it has no bearing on the material that I have to use. The material that is written down in a score and script that the writers originally used is what I use.

'The House Of Tomorrow' offered such a fantastic script. I couldn't believe that script - it was just so original and unique.

It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.

Producers on Broadway approached us with an original script after relaunching ourselves as 'A Great Big World,' and wanted us to write the music. They asked us to make the music we would sing if we could, and so we can go a little crazier. We refer to it as 'our music on steroids.'

What first attracted me to doing Swiss Army Man was just how mental it was - how insane and wonderful and original the script was.

I feel the best scripts are those that are originally written to be films: that is film in its purest sense.