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'The Inbetweeners' would have been a success with a totally different cast because the scripts are good - so while we were fortunate enough to be cast in it, we feel we still have a lot to prove.
Simon Bird
Success
Good
Enough
Would
Totally
Cast
Feel
Because
Still
Prove
Were
Been
Lot
Different
While
Scripts
Fortunate
I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.
Simon Callow
Life
Character
Books
Kind
About
Feature
Him
Understand
His
Lot
Get
Literary
Anything
Which
Little
Scripts
Victorian
Sent
Really
I don't have any regrets, because I think life is like a creek. It kind of meanders along, and you instinctively do the things you are meant to do. There's no great plan except doing really good scripts, meeting great filmmakers. And I have to have something that I can bring to the role.
Sissy Spacek
Life
Good
Great
You
Think
Meeting
Kind
Something
Good Scripts
Except
Instinctively
Along
Like
Because
Doing
Role
Any
Scripts
Plan
Regrets
Really
Meant
Things
Bring
Creek
Filmmakers
Oftentimes you read scripts, and you get to one and you think, 'OK, is this good, or is this just better than all the other ones that I have been reading?'
Sissy Spacek
Good
You
Better
Reading
Think
Other
OK
Read
Been
Than
Get
Oftentimes
Just
Scripts
I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.
Stephen Dorff
Books
Some
Read
Scripts
Should
Many
I find that dialogue is bad in most scripts. I just think there are very few writers that can capture the natural way people talk.
Stephen Dorff
Natural
People
Few
Think
Way
Bad
Find
Writers
Most
Talk
Dialogue
Very
Just
Scripts
Natural Way
Capture
As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.
Stephen Frears
Director
Job
Protect
Scripts
Actor
Designers
I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.
Stephen Rea
Good
Seen
About
Something
Guy
Good Scripts
Along
List
Move
Just
Want
Interested
Scripts
Acting
Your
We were all thrown together on this show very rapidly, there was casting then a few days later a meeting where we all got to read the scripts and meet each other. Literally days after that we were on our way to Dallas.
Steve Kanaly
Together
Few
Other
Meet
Meeting
Our
Later
Way
Rapidly
Casting
Thrown
Days
Read
Got
Were
Very
Where
Literally
After
Scripts
Then
Show
Each
Dallas
I wait and see what scripts come my way and then try and make a decision within the choices that I'm offered. I see what turns up, and if it's something I'd really rather not do, or I think it's too similar to something I've just done, I'll wait and hope for something else.
Steven Mackintosh
Hope
Wait
Try
Decision
Think
Too
Else
Way
See
Similar
Something
Something Else
Rather
Come
Make
Within
Up
Offered
Done
Just
Scripts
Then
Really
Choices
Turns
The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.
Steven Spielberg
Good
Me
Back
Directing
Good Scripts
Only
Gets
The Only Thing
Scripts
Thing
When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years.
Susanna Moore
Work
Reading
Later
Married
Angeles
Ten
Ten Years
Named
Los
Los Angeles
Years
Jack
Jack Nicholson
Scripts
Richard
Production
Lived
Nicholson
Designer
I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character.
Tamra Davis
Character
Strong
Few
Strong Female
Come
Read
Because
Around
Female
Female Character
Loved
Script
Scripts
Across
We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
Tara Strong
Music
Sit
Our
Silliness
Lay
Begins
Front
Scripts
Then
Stands
With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.
Taraji P. Henson
You
TV
Directors
Firing
Coming
Pace
Scripts
Breathtaking
Fast
Things
A lot of things I have turned down ended up being a big embarrassment. Like that script, 'The Beaver.' I thought that was one of the worst scripts I had ever read. But everyone said, 'Ooh it's on the Black List.' Yeah, well, good for it. They're a bunch of idiots. I saw the final film, and there were no surprises.
Terry Zwigoff
Good
Thought
Black
Big
Down
Final
Everyone
Saw
Worst
Embarrassment
Had
Like
Well
Read
Beaver
Idiots
Said
Yeah
Were
Surprises
Lot
Up
Bunch
Ended
List
Being
Script
Scripts
Turned
Film
Ever
Things
There's so many things I want to do. I want to work with great filmmakers, great actors, great scripts. And there's no reason for me to do anything short of that, because I'm 24, I don't have a family, I don't need to make tons of money, and I'm not dying to get famous.
Tobey Maguire
Work
Great
Family
Me
Money
No Reason
Make
Because
Get
Short
Famous
Want
Dying
Anything
Scripts
Reason
Many
Actor
Things
Need
Filmmakers
Tons
There are a lot of considerations that come into play when you craft one of these 'Saw' scripts, and there's only so much you can put into them.
Tobin Bell
You
Considerations
Saw
Only
Put
Come
Lot
Craft
Scripts
Them
Much
Play
I often get sent scripts about little men in big situations. There's a comic element to it, which is forces stacked against this little guy, and how is he going to defeat them?
Toby Jones
Men
Big
Defeat
About
Guy
He
Forces
Comic
How
Get
Going
Often
Situations
Stacked
Which
Against
Little
Scripts
Sent
Them
Little Men
Element
I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn't have enough life experience at that point to write a movie.
Todd Phillips
Life
Time
You
Experience
Writing
Remember
Enough
Everyone
Life Experience
About
Point
Write
Like
Sort
Cheesy
Felt
Got
Sounds
Movie
Script
Scripts
Much
NYU
Pull
I'm first and foremost a company man, surprising as that is. I love Warner Brothers. That's where I have a deal. That's where I've been for years. So I don't really interact too much with other studios and do things with other studios and I don't necessarily read scripts from other studios.
Todd Phillips
Love
Man
Too Much
First
Too
Other
Brothers
Studios
Read
Deal
Been
Surprising
Years
Foremost
Interact
Where
Scripts
Much
Really
Warner
Warner Brothers
Company
Things
Necessarily
I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.
Tom Baker
Great
Alien
Thought
Carefully
Benevolent
Way
Detail
Would
Examined
Never
Spoil
Know
Read
Because
Felt
Did
Any
Going
Being
Wanted
Scripts
Should
Things
Pilot season's such a strange time. You get such a concentrated amount of scripts. A lot of them become white noise after a while. When something really pops, it becomes apparent very quickly. I'm quite instinctive about that. I know, normally by about 10 pages in, whether I want to do something or not.
Tom Ellis
Time
You
Strange
Noise
Pilot
Become
White
About
Something
Instinctive
Concentrated
Know
Becomes
Lot
Very
Normally
Quickly
Get
Quite
Want
After
Whether
While
Scripts
Them
Really
Pages
Apparent
Pops
Season
Amount
My scripts, they're pretty serious. I basically just describe stuff. I don't put too many notes and letters to the editors. But when I wrote 'KGBLT,' in parentheses I wrote, 'Well this is the best thing I've ever written. It will all be downhill from here. I'm so sorry for the rest of my career.'
Tom King
Best
Will
Rest
Sorry
Too
Pretty
Written
Put
Stuff
Wrote
Well
Editors
Just
Scripts
Notes
Many
Describe
Downhill
Serious
Ever
Letters
Thing
Here
Basically
Career
I have an idealistic approach to acting. I want to be great at it, but you can't be great if the scripts are not there and the director doesn't know what he's doing.
Tom Sizemore
Great
You
Director
Approach
He
Idealistic
Know
Doing
Want
Scripts
Acting
I have tried to make decisions to work with great directors, with good scripts, and that makes the pickings real slim.
Tom Sizemore
Work
Good
Great
Slim
Tried
Good Scripts
Directors
Make
Makes
Real
Decisions
Scripts
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