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The first thing, when I read the script, is that I need to care about what happens and feel compelled by the story and engaged by the characters. It needs to resonate with me, even if what the characters are going through is not something that I have experienced in my life. I have to feel like it has some sort of meaning to me.
Michael Sheen
Life
Needs
Me
Care
Resonate
My Life
First
Characters
Some
About
Something
Through
Feel
Like
Read
Sort
First Thing
Going
The First Thing
Experienced
Happens
Story
Script
Meaning
Engaged
Even
Compelled
Thing
Need
Sometimes you see things in a script, and it doesn't necessarily mean the director sees the same things. And if you think you're going to be making a different film, then that's not gonna work.
Michael Sheen
Work
You
Director
Sometimes
Think
See
Sees
Making
Same
Going
Same Things
Different
Script
Mean
Gonna
Then
Film
Things
Necessarily
You have to be careful so you don't make your character dull and predictable. Sometimes you have to bend the script a little... The bad guys are mostly the same on the paper... A bad guy wouldn't think of himself as bad.
Michael Wincott
Character
You
Sometimes
Think
Bend
Paper
Bad
Be Careful
Bad Guy
Bad Guys
Guy
Guys
Make
Mostly
Himself
Dull
Same
Predictable
Script
Little
Your
Careful
They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers' work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation.
Michael York
Work
Funny
Me
Thought
Creation
Live
Would
About
Something
He
Know
Also
Make
Very
Familiar
Did
Which
Script
Sent
Mike
Appealing
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Extent
Night
When I think of the things that I want to write, I can never say them out loud because I know how crazy they sound. I know what things sound like when you haven't actually worked on the script, so I don't go around saying some of these ideas because they just sound awful.
Michaela Coel
Saying
Crazy
You
Think
Say
Out
Some
Write
Never
Like
Ideas
Know
Because
Around
How
Sound
Go
Loud
Just
Want
Script
Them
Worked
Actually
Awful
Things
I wrote a play at drama school, which was a dark comedy - people laughed and cried. And then my script of one of the shows was picked up by a comedy sketch company... so then I had to write comedy.
Michaela Coel
People
Dark
School
Comedy
Cried
Drama
Drama School
Laughed
Write
Had
Picked
Wrote
Up
Which
Script
Sketch
Then
Company
Shows
Play
If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know.
Michel Hazanavicius
You
Try
Problems
Will
Big
Out
Tell
Silent
Silent Movie
Know
Make
Because
Dialogue
Normal
Big Problems
Just
Movie
Story
Script
Them
Ask
Actor
Pull
When you write a script that you've felt in your soul for a long time, you can't ask the actors to go through the same emotions. You have to do part of the job to make things as easy as possible for them.
Michel Hazanavicius
Time
You
Soul
Emotions
Job
Long
Long Time
Possible
Easy
Through
Write
Part
Make
Felt
Go
Same
Script
Them
Ask
Your
Actor
Things
For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots.
Michelle Dockery
Myself
Speak
Knots
Tie
Understand
Years
Up
Often
Afraid
Script
Fully
I call my tiki bar my tiki office, even though I also entertain out here all the time. This beautiful, open-air space is such a creative environment for me. It's where my writing partner and I wrote much of the script for a Mamas and Papas biopic that's in the works, and where I have my meetings.
Michelle Phillips
Beautiful
Time
Me
Creative
Writing
Space
Partner
Meetings
Though
Out
Out Here
Entertain
Environment
Also
Wrote
Call
Office
Where
Bar
Script
Much
Creative Environment
Works
Even
Here
I believe that the director is really the soul. It is a collaborative effort, but the director is the one who needs to have that vision. It could be a great script, but it starts from there. You need to have good material, at least, but if you don't have someone with vision, it's just words.
Michelle Yeoh
Good
Great
Needs
You
Director
Soul
Words
Vision
Believe
Starts
Collaborative
Good Material
Someone
Could
Great Script
Material
Least
Effort
Just
Script
Really
Who
Need
TV has gotten perhaps better than your average film script, but at the same time, it's fun to give it all you've got for a few months and produce a story.
Michiel Huisman
Time
You
Better
Few
Months
TV
Give
Perhaps
Got
Gotten
Than
Same
Same Time
Story
Script
Average
Produce
Your
Fun
Film
I thought 'ER' was a really good script, but I didn't have any inkling that it would become the phenomenon that it did, and I don't think anybody did back then.
Miguel Ferrer
Good
Thought
Become
Think
Back
Would
Good Script
Did
Any
Anybody
Script
Then
Really
Phenomenon
Each film is different. Time Code was very quick - a matter of months. Miss Julie has been on my shelf as a script for some seven or eight years. But then the shooting process was very quick - 16 days.
Mike Figgis
Time
Matter
Seven
Months
Has-Been
Some
Miss
Days
Shelf
Been
Years
Julie
Quick
Very
Shooting
Eight
Different
Process
Script
Then
Each
Code
Film
I learned to read music before I learned to read script.
Mildred Dresselhaus
Music
Before
Read
Learned
Script
I don't mind getting involved in a risky project as long as I don't have to stay married to it if the script turns out lousy.
Milos Forman
Mind
Long
Project
Out
Married
Stay
Risky
Involved
Lousy
Getting
Script
Turns
Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.'
Mindy Kaling
You
Twitter
Saw
Hey
Bosses
Like
Safe
Wrote
Due
Blog
Short
Want
Script
Pages
Your
Four
I love making 'iCarly' - it's so much fun, and I love getting the script every week and not really knowing what insane thing I'm going to be doing. It's just like an adventure every episode; that's really fun.
Miranda Cosgrove
Love
Every
Insane
Week
Adventure
Like
Knowing
Making
Doing
Getting
Going
Just
So Much Fun
Script
Much
Really
Episode
Fun
Thing
Usually, I end up looking for something completely different to who I last played. But there is just a spark that's lit when I read a script or character I want to play.
Miranda Otto
Character
Looking
Something
Read
End
Up
Just
Lit
Different
Want
Script
Spark
Who
Play
Played
Last
I always feel this huge responsibility to the script when it arrives, keeping it confidential.
Miranda Otto
Responsibility
Feel
Always
Huge
Huge Responsibility
Confidential
Script
Keeping
I always like to hang out with whoever's directing and watch what they do. I hang out at Video Village, the area where the directors and the writers and script advisors are.
Miriam Shor
Out
Directing
Area
Directors
Writers
Like
Advisor
Always
Hang
Where
Script
Video
Whoever
Village
Watch
Not every director does this, but I did: I made a list of every shot you're going to set up for every scene in the script.
Miriam Shor
You
Director
Made
Every
Scene
Does
Up
Did
List
Going
Script
Shot
Set
Every actor, director, and producer want all their films to do well. So you choose the role carefully, listen to the script, and work hard. But there is no way of predicting whether it will be a hit or a flop.
Mohanlal
Work
You
Director
Work Hard
Will
Every
Carefully
Films
Way
Well
Hit
Role
Listen
Want
Predicting
Whether
Script
Producer
Hard
Choose
Actor
Flop
I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade - I wanted to be a nun.
Moira Kelly
God
Time
Day
Me
Long
Long Time
Believe
Nun
Brought
Until
Because
Truly
Up
Grade
Eight
Wanted
Dorothy
Script
If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.
Monica Bellucci
Good
Great
You
Director
Great Director
Good Movie
Great Movie
Never
Great Script
Make
Going
Movie
Script
'V' had just been cancelled; I was looking for a job, and the 'Homeland' script came across my desk. I loved it immediately, although I thought it would end up being discovered gradually - a slow-burner, like 'The Wire.'
Morena Baccarin
Job
Thought
Looking
Immediately
Would
Wire
Had
Like
Although
Came
Been
Discovered
End
Up
Cancelled
Gradually
Just
Being
Loved
Script
Across
Homeland
Desk
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