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Book Quotes
This is a show I've always wanted to do. I wanted to do this 15 years ago. We lived in San Diego and my church group there was going to get to do it and I had everything ready to go, but they didn't get the rights. They had to change everything at the last minute, and I've been holding on to the script and director's book since then.
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Air Quotes
They do anything from creation of a Web site to marketing materials. We put together an educational piece that is getting ready to air on public television, and they were in charge of putting together the script and the shooting of it. He is very talented and can meet any need of a growing company.
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Comedy Quotes
You don't want to be too worried about the marketplace or what's commercial, or what's on TV or in the movies right now. What started us was writing this very personal romantic comedy script that never got made, but was about very personal things to us and showcased our voice as writers. People responded to that and started to open doors because of that.
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Interested Quotes
There was a lot of that in the script already, which was nice. It's something I'm interested in, and that was one of the things I liked about the movie, that it had parenting stuff in it. So we talked about it, what really is going on, and that was nice to have those kind of discussions.
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Audience Quotes
It's not proper to give someone a script and say, 'Listen, I'm going to give you a script but this means an awful lot to me because it's about my father and mother ... ' The person who reads the script -- they don't give a s--- about that, ... What does he care? What does an actor care about when he reads a script? He cares about whether he can score or not. He cares about whether or not the audience is going to identify with him or whether they're going to laugh or be compelled by the story. The reason I said yes is because I enjoyed it.
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Certainly Quotes
For me, in general, it's always about the material. Obviously, it's about the material and hoping that someone wants to hire me for a job, too, but I've certainly seen films like 'Orphan' and movies like that where I know that if I had had the opportunity to read that script or had an opportunity to do it, I would have wanted to do it.
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Best Quotes
It's a very intimidating moment for all of us to realize that this is really the first foray after August's passing when a play of his is going through these stages. I'm sure that if he were with us he'd probably be rewriting to some degree. All we can do is make the very best result of the script that he left us.
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Against Quotes
That's such s---, I promise you, ... I know there's one line -- 'You're either with me or you're against me' -- that echoes something. But that was actually in the script way before it even became a nightmare that it was possible that Bush could become president. That line has been echoed since the beginning of time.
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Adapt Quotes
'The Blacklist' was really right place, right time. I read the script and met with Jon Bokenkamp, John Eisendrath, John Fox and John Davis, and we just hit it off. They understood that I was not so much trying to adapt to television, but adapt a cinematic style to the things that we were gonna do.
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Anybody Quotes
It was a coincidence, ... It was a weird moment where I had just gotten the script and, like a half hour later, we went and had lunch. And she just sort of out of the blue, said, you know, 'Has anybody ever worked with Clive Owen?' And I just said, 'That's very strange. I just got a script with his name attached to it.' And she said, 'If you can, work with him. He's fantastic.'
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Arc Quotes
In a play, you know where you start and end and all the stops you have to do, but in television, you can't construct this carefully planned out arc for your character. You often get a script and you're shooting it two days later, and you don't know what's going to happen next. It's one of the harder things that I've done.
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Ability Quotes
I hadn't read the novel Bleak House . I'd read Dickens, but not this novel. I'd read several of his great novels, though I think it's different if you read them when you're young. You appreciate the storytelling, the stand-out characters, but you don't appreciate his ability as a writer, the depth of his humanity. He writes about everything, the rich, the poor, the prisons, the law courts, the country houses, the orphans and the families. I read the script for Bleak House and I was tentative about it. I'd told the producers, 'I don't do television.' But they charmed me and I did actually read the novel. I was captivated.
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Absolute Quotes
I really just don't want to act any more. People say why and I said, 'Have you been to the movies lately?' They're just horrible. They're just so bad. And I was sent this script and I said to the agent at the time, 'What's the deal?' He said, 'Well, they've offered it to you.' I said, 'Yes! The answer is yes!' (Laughs) Are you kidding? This thing is hilarious. It just is so right on target, it's so not politically correct. And then I heard Evan was going to be in it? The absolute most talented actress I've worked with in a decade. Really, honestly? You can't imagine how talented she is.
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Begin Quotes
In the time between when you first read a script and are offered the role and the time when you begin to shoot, I really love putting in the time and work on that and getting a solid backstory to a character and researching all that I can about what that person does for a vocation or their upbringing or where they're from.
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Available Quotes
In 2010, when the Lotus Sutra was made available to me by a private dealer, I was very fortunate to be able to have it. It is very long, 30 feet or something crazy like that. It has some 15,000 very small standard script characters that the artist Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan dynasty made when he was in his 60s.
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Character Quotes
He sent the script over and I read it that first night, and about page 45 or 50, I called him up and said I'd do it. I didn't even finish it. You look for a part that you can score in. If I like this character and I can play it, the people are going to laugh or be interested, that's what you look for. They send me things that I wonder why they would send to anybody.