Film Script Quotes

Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together. ~ Darlene Craviotto

Irony is the kid who steals music and is stolen by the music. ~ MEDVGNO

You can throw away your script more easily than you can throw away your film. ~ Lenny Abrahamson

I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once, and it's too much; my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold onto it. And then it flows through me like rain, and I can't feel anything but gratitude - for every single moment of my stupid, little life. You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure; but don't worry ... .you will someday. ~ Alan Ball

And so Graham and I finally got down to our first film script, and I can say with complete confidence that we had absolutely no idea what we were doing. Of course, we had no idea we had no idea what we were doing, and that meant our enthusiasm stayed intact. ~ John Cleese

How I envy writers who can work on aeroplanes or in hotel rooms. On the run I can produce an article or a book review, or even a film script, but for fiction I must have my own desk, my own wall with my own postcards pinned to it, and my own window not to look out of. ~ John Banville

When I read a film script, I kind of see it in my head and I see the moments that shape what I understand the character to be. There's very little time for rehearsal. ~ Karen Allen

I have a bad feeling about this. ~ Han Solo

I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script. ~ Deepa Mehta

I didn't leave that crowd of ocelots to go back into it." [when asked to write the film script for The Osterman Weekend] ~ Robert Ludlum

How stupid do you have to be to imagine that you can turn 'The Lord Of The Rings' into a film script? ~ John Rhys-Davies

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

The process always starts with detailed conversations with the director, followed by a spotting session (deciding where the music goes and doesn't go in the film, and what the music should be saying or not saying) in each scene. This is followed by sending the director demos of each cue for feedback. ~ John Keltonic

I always want to see films that are startling and amazing. Not just shocking. Shocking is easy to do. But startling in the way that makes you change how you think about things. Those are the movies I like the best. ~ John Waters

no film could show more than those sights that a man's eyes rested on when he had given up the effort to observe. ~ Gerald Murnane

AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence. ~ A.O. Scott

The script sits in front of you. The writer's translated into ink what is in his spirit and his soul and his mind. Bum. [Thumps table.] I come along, I pick it up, and the ink goes into my eyes, into my mind, into my body, flows around and that part starts to inhabit me. And I know a good part when I see one. ~ Peter O'Toole

Actors shouldn't be scared. Don't get scared on film. ~ Kodi Smit-McPhee

I would love to go to film school. ~ Sage Stallone

I have a dirty mouth sometimes, and I'm very liberal, and that doesn't always go down well in the film industry - especially when you've got to appeal to mums and daughters. ~ Amanda Seyfried

Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison. ~ C.S. Lewis

I'm a bit of a pessimist, oh yeah, and I always think the film I'm about to make is going to be a disaster. ~ Lenny Abrahamson

Telling Alan Turing's story in a two-hour film was a tremendous challenge. It felt in some small way like our filmmaking version of breaking the enigma code. ~ Graham Moore

It was a great circumstance when I received the script of [Chloe] and Atom [Egoyan] said he wanted me to do it. I was inclined to say 'yes' immediately. ~ Julianne Moore

Film actually is a very strange thing - you can fly in, get off the plane, and climb into bed with somebody you've never met - and that's weird! ~ Sylvester McCoy

I love film, and I would love to be a part of something that people universally love as a piece of film. Sure. Of course I would. And I would love to take acting lessons, and see that side of it someday. But I'm a musician. ~ Norah Jones

I think the best work of the director is to listen to what all the technicians around him have to say, but then the thing is to take the best decision, what you think is the best. Then, that is the moment where you have to have all the film in your head and imagine how all of that will fit together. ~ Marjane Satrapi

When you get into a film, it is one story and one set development of a character, and you are able to delve into one character for a short period of time and discover everything about them. ~ Alexander Gould

I'm a big fan of the 70's action films. Where there is a lot of character and a lot of great action, but the action is kind of cemented with a great back-story with characters. And I thought, this kind of reminded me of the movies that, early on when I was telling Dwayne (Johnson) and the guys, the producer ... my whole thing is if you look at a movie like The Driver by Walter Hill, it's a film where there's no names. They are just named, "the driver", "the cop". ~ George Tillman, Jr.

It is vitally important that you prioritize your film and use your time and energy and resources to make it happen. Stop waiting for things to fall into place. Start doing things right now to make it happen. ~ Jenni Olson

In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something. ~ Joaquin Phoenix

The normal storyline of a horror film or a slasher film is the young, beautiful college folks go camping and get systematically killed by the person in a mask. So that's how it normally is. ~ John Schneider

Whereas with Sirk, everything is always filmed. No matter what the script, he's always a real director. ~ Jacques Rivette

My technicians are my most important tools. Once I establish a rapport with them, then they would understand me in my next film. I wouldn't have to train anyone new. I give a lot of respect to all my technicians, because I'm a technician too. I wouldn't be able to convey a feeling if the writer didn't write it well, and the cameraman didn't shoot it well. ~ Yash Chopra

You do not deserve most of what has happened or will. But there is something I can offer you. Whoever you are. Out there. As lonely as it gets, you are not alone. There is another kind of love.
It's the love of art. Because I believe in art the way other people believe in god.
In art I've met an army of people - a tribe that gives good company and courage and hope. In books and painting and music and film. This book? It's for you. It's water I made a path through. I'm not speaking out of my asshole when I say this.
Come in. The water will hold you. ~ Lidia Yuknavitch

The studios basically, besides developing some material, their strength is distribution. Distribution in any other business is a cost that you incur. You know, in a trucking business, you eat it. In a film business, distribution is a profit center. ~ Michael Douglas

Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, when you have a film there, you can't have the opportunity to see other films. ~ Gavin O'Connor

I'm not interested in making a $60-million studio film with a bunch of 24-year-olds telling me what to do. ~ Bruce Campbell

A film should be somewhat personal. I think that whatever you create you have to be true to yourself and create something that feels right to you. ~ Tom Ford

I've just had the opportunity to see the finished film of 'The Hunger Games.' I'm really happy with how it turned out. I feel like the book and the film are individual yet complementary pieces that enhance one another. ~ Suzanne Collins

There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.' ~ Maj Sjowall

Working on a film, the setup for an action sequence takes a long time, and we need to shoot the scene many times to get different angles. ~ Jet Li

I've always sensed what a script should sound like - even before the movie's been made ~ David Puttnam

Success is not important to me, nor are power or money. If the script feels good, then I'm in. It's that simple. ~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

My first experience on a feature film was with Shane Meadows on 'This Is England.' ~ Jack O'Connell

Sure. I'd like to live regular. Go home to a good looking wife, a hot dinner, and a husky kid. But I guess I got film in my blood. I love this racket. It's exciting. It's dangerous. It's funny. It's tough. It's heartbreaking. ~ Weegee

I kind of got lost down a road of TV and film, so it's great to come back to theatre. ~ Richard C. Armitage

Let me put it this way: I would like to direct a successful film. An unsuccessful film I would not like to direct. Films are very difficult. ~ Twyla Tharp

Years earlier, I might have scoffed, but I'd come to accept that, for Snowden's generation, they played no less serious a role in molding political consciousness, moral reasoning, and an understanding of one's place in the world than literature, television, and film. They, too, often present complex moral dilemmas and provoke contemplation, especially for people beginning to question what they've been taught. ~ Glenn Greenwald

There is something that might be called cinematic beauty. It can only be expressed in a film, and it must be present for that film to be a moving work. When it is very well expressed, one experiences a particularly deep emotion while watching that film. I believe that it is this quality that draws people to come and see a film, and that it is the hope of attaining this quality that inspires the filmmaker to make his film in the first place. ~ Akira Kurosawa

On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap. ~ Barbara Cook

Pixar films are not realistic. They are believable for the worlds we are creating. ~ John Lasseter

I like film soundtracks. I like the soundtracks better than the movies. ~ Madonna Ciccone

The 2.4 million bright, brave, incredibly fit and remarkably talented young Americans who have served in our armed forces since we were attacked on 9-11-01 are all volunteers. As General Petraeus put it during a conversation we had in Afghanistan, 'They all came or stayed, knowing they were going to war.' For more than a decade, these patriots and their loved ones have made extraordinary sacrifices for this country. They embody the classical definition of heroes: those who put themselves at risk for the benefit of others. ~ Oliver North

Emeric [Pressburger] was completely cosmopolitan. That's what makes their [with Michael Powell] films so special. Neither of them thought twice about making a film about a friendship between an Englishman and a German during the Blitz. They were genius. ~ Thelma Schoonmaker

It's easier to face the camera than life. As in the former the script is known. ~ Haresh Sippy

With film roles, it just has to be a character either I haven't done before, or a role with somebody really interesting or with an interesting person or group of people. ~ Robin Williams

Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about. ~ Catherine Deneuve

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them. ~ Hayao Miyazaki

It's easier to direct. If you direct something poorly and re-shoot it the next day, stage it better, make it work better, you have a lot of possibilities. You can edit it in certain ways so that it works, but there's no getting around weaknesses of the script. ~ Woody Allen

Right now my career is totally schizophrenic, because when an American production like Hitchcock Presents asks to see my work I would never dream of showing them my independent films. ~ Atom Egoyan