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I don't get a lot of romantic comedy scripts.


Ryan Reynolds
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I've seen a lot of movies get made where no one has control. No one likes it.


Seth Rogen
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It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.


Neil Jordan
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If you are a certain kind of hands-on learner and have been in a writers room and know how scripts get made, and you know what pre-production is, then mostly it's making sure the actors get what they need, and you are providing creative oversight while allowing room for everyone else to own the material, too.
Nic Pizzolatto
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It is a difficult one, as you get scripts where women are just objects.


Imogen Poots
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I started in the era when Hollywood reveled in being the most cost-inefficient industry on the planet. They used to commission a hundred scripts for every one they made.
Richard Greenberg
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My whole game plan was to direct movies. I knew if I made a reputation in theater, I would get offers.
Michael Schultz
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A lot of movies are made, but because they come to film festivals and your movie doesn't get bought by a studio or a distributor, your movie doesn't get seen.
Michael Angarano
Once I started selling scripts for a great deal of money - action scripts, no less, which people tend to pooh-pooh anyway - then I started to get some backlash. Which I didn't mind.
Shane Black
When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.
Keanu Reeves
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I like independent movies, documentaries. There's not a lot of movies that are commercially made that I dig.
Jeff Garlin
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Will Ferrell's made a lot of brilliant movies.


Noah Baumbach
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A lot of the scripts I read and the characters I get are 'the girl' in romantic films, and I don't know how comfortable I am, or the world is, with me being that.
Mamie Gummer
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In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I had developed, and the pilot for 'True Detective' was one of them.
Nic Pizzolatto
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I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.
Anthony Hopkins
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I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.


Denzel Washington
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In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
Viggo Mortensen
I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want.
Parker Stevenson
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There are definitely strictly independent movies. 'Gummo' is one. Another is one I made, 'Fresh,' a $3 million movie which Boaz Yakin directed.
Lawrence Bender
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I'm terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts.


Angelina Jolie
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