Scripts Quotes

I signed up for 'Brothers & Sisters' because I think it's a really great show. I like my character, and I'm really interested in what he has to do every day - and this cast is so spectacular. I really wanted to work with this particular group of people.

My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays.

I never work from the script. I get the script more or less.

Writing is the life blood of everything in Hollywood. Without writers, there are no scripts, no acting work.

The cornerstone of education is an easy system of reading and writing. The hey to this is the new Turkish alphabet based on the Latin script.

I want to be in 'Avatar'. I want somebody to hire me to be Superman, a Chinese Superman or Spider-Man.

Acting is very competitive. There are few good scripts out there and the ones that are good are very competitive. You look at your options and often times they're not too appealing.

Doing a film and saying, I've done a really dark film and now I have to do a comedy... That's not me. If a script comes along and it's dark I'll absolutely do it and take the consequences. I'm not fussed about the image that goes along with it.

Every time I get a script in my inbox, it's like a little Christmas present. It's so exciting to see what they've cooked up.

Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material.

I've never read a script that I've loved equally and differently to the book.

You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.

I had one well known director who kept saying, "Now Clint, this is what ...." And I'd say, "I know. I read the script. I'm the one who cast you as the director. Let me show you and you'll correct me if I'm wrong."

I've been bouncing around from comedy to drama and TV and film.

I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.

Every day of my life, I wish I was on Broadway. It's my favorite place. It's my heart; it's my soul.

The script - and a good one - tells you everything that you need to know.

I haven't been offered a lot of comedy. In theater, I've done quite a bit of comedy or dramas that included a lot of funny stuff. But in my TV work, those aren't the roles that I've been offered.

Without being good enough, I started figuring out how to make my way through the minefield of a script, which is what it was to me at the time, and the rest is semi-history.

I don't think about better. You just want it to work. You want it to work and you have your guide with the script. You want it to exist and complete.

I'm open to different kinds of roles, characters and genres.

I guess each of my roles on the network have been so different. It's great to be entrusted with such interesting, unique, and completely separate characters.

It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.

I do many commercials. All of them are interesting in their own ways.

I am no champion, no great name, just a small actor who loves working for cinema.