#script

I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#director #go-ahead #good #good story #i

Tonight the sun has died like an Emperor ... great scarlet arcs of silk ... saffron ... green ... crimson ... and the blaze of Venus to remind one of the absolute and the infinite ... and along the lower rim of beauty lay the hard harsh line of the hills ... ↗

— John Coldstream

#description #imagery #natural-world #silk #sunset

From the very start of all of this, my mom has read the scripts first. And if she liked something, she let me read it. She told our agent what kinds of parts that we would want. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#first #kinds #liked #me #mom

I did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay. It was probably harder for a regular director. He probably had to read the script the night before shooting started. ↗

— Preston Sturges

#did #directing #director #had #harder

So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#give #go #i #keep #like

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. ↗

— Oliver Herford

#leisure #manuscript #returned #something #submitted

Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with. ↗

— Jay Hernandez

#bad stuff #connect #continue #eventually #find

I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black. ↗

— Gregory Hines

#against #black #good #happen #i

I've seen a lot of friends who have a lot of great projects, whether it's a script or a play or whatever, and it is a great project and they have great people involved, and they can't make it. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

#great #great people #i #involved #lot

I quit doing the movies because the wrestling was going so good and was so on fire during the '80s and '90s, but I was getting all these movie scripts. ↗

— Hulk Hogan

#doing #during #fire #getting #going