The green-light meeting, when I first started at Paramount, would consist of maybe three or four of us in a room. Perhaps two or three of us would have read the script under discussion.
Peter Bart

I feel as though my career really hit its high point when I was cast as a supporting actress in 'American Wedding'. I thought the script had a lot of depth and intelligence, and it really just jumped off the page.
January Jones

I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.
Jennifer Connelly

Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character.
Viola Davis

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.
Michael Landon

House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
Uwe Boll

I need to react to a script, to feel strongly about it in some way. And I need it to be a complex character for sure. And also, I think a lot about what kind of audience there is for the film, what they're looking for and ways to connect with them in the playing of a character.
Jeremy Renner

Even before my audition, there were several pages missing from my script because those bits were so unbelievably secret not even I was allowed to see them.
Ian Hart

I'm a sucker for a funny script. And then, as soon as I don't wanna be, one comes along and grabs me.
Meg Ryan

I personally take cues directly from the script, then I like to surprise the other actors. But you must maintain control on a level and see how far you can go up, down or out emotionally. You have to balance the craft with spontaneity.
Lusia Strus

When the script was written, it was sent to me with asterisks marking where he felt a song would be appropriate. Before the film was shot, the score was written. I made a demo of it, so they lived with the music as they were making the film.
Alan Price

Back then, it was more or less we couldn't change a line in our script. We weren't allowed to change lines. Today, actors change everything and won't do parts. It's very different today. Back then, the producers were in charge. Today actors are more in charge.
Donna Douglas

I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one.
Jay Roach

The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
Tatum O'Neal

What Tim does is, he calls me and sends me the script. And then he sends me a drawing, an illustration of his image of me as the character. It's so great.
Danny DeVito

And I'm auditioning right now for a movie, and then I have a script that I'm reading right now for a horror film, and I'm meeting for a couple of television shows that I just had yesterday, and pretty much was offered one of them.
Trishelle Cannatella

Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script.
Douglas Wood

Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.
Morgan Brittany

Knowing that Gene and Morgan were playing those roles made it much easier to put the script together-we knew who we were writing it for. It took some mystery away.
Stephen Hopkins

I'd just love to have an audience and it's the most fun in the world to get a new script every week and have the audience come in, and work with those actors.
Sara Gilbert