With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can't possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. The script must be something that has the power to do this
Akira Kurosawa
Related A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good ... KAJOL If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie,... MONICA BELLUCCI By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be origina... JOSH HARTNETT For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it. DANIEL ESPINOSA A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue. DAVID MAMET Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director. GEORGE CUKOR A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me. SANJAY DUTT There are three things that are important for a film. Number one is story, number two is story, numb... MARK STRICKSON It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie... GEORGE CLOONEY Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place. THE SCRIPT Policeman says, "Son you can't stay here" I said, "There's someone I'm waiting for if it's a da... THE SCRIPT They're kicking us out saying it's time to close We're leaning on each other try'na beat the c... THE SCRIPT Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE There are definitely reasons to do certain things, but I like to stick to good director, good actor,... AMANDA SEYFRIED A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study... APURVA GAGLANI Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ... RON DARIAN How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS The person that gives you a good book to read is more valuable than the one that gives you money,bec... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Endeavour to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gr... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good quote is far better than the best selling books. ANUJ SOMANY Endeavor to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gre... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is good to appreciate anothers good deeds, but let not your good deeds be known to others lest th... APURVA GAGLANI If given an opportunity to head an establishment,resite this "A good name will last better for my fa... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you have inherited a bad name from your parent,edit it,by becoming good,but if you are lucky to h... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Diamond & platinum are the obstacles that always stand in the way of a good name. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Let us endeavor to have a good name,for in so doing we are sowing good seeds,that will one day be ha... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) During times of sour or bad relationship a good person will always exhibit a pleasant character. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name is a more bankable & valuable inheritance than diamond & platinum. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name will open doors that diamond & platinum dare not. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name can open ways for your great grand children. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name is the only insurance we need against the monster called poverty. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The best inheritance a man can leave for his children is not diamond & platinum,but a good name. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) All the riches in life are incomparable to a good name. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Even if other things remains unspoken in your life,a good name will continually speak for you, even ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terribl... EDDIE MARSAN (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough... LESLIE CARON I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like ... BRIAN HERBERT Unification of differences is power. SHESH NATH VERNWAL With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be troubl... ROBERT DOWNEY, JR. Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES It's a great pity that things weren't so arranged that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn'... UNKNOWN If a script comes together, and you end up liking the people who are part of it, that's when you... ALEXA VEGA If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it. GEORGE BURNS If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it. GEORGE F. BURNS An actor is only a part of the film, not the whole, and very often, he is moulded by the director. T... ANUPAM KHER All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't. CHARLES BUKOWSKI People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m... OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have ... ELLEN BURSTYN A life without problems is a life less likely to be. VANCE B.. CHAN I have been waiting around to get the right script and the right director. For example, in the past,... GONG LI It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time.... BLAIR UNDERWOOD Without a good (script) you can't make a good movie. BECCA GARDNER The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working. RAGHURAM RAJAN Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I don't know you very well, and i'm almost afraid to know you better. Maybe i love you because i don... ELLIOT MABEUSE Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the aud... AJAY DEVGAN A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script. JOHN HUGHES Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving. LAURA WHITCOMB If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Life is a divine blessing for those who live life to add values in the lives of others. SEEMA BRAIN OPENERS What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I believe that the director is really the soul. It is a collaborative effort, but the director is th... MICHELLE YEOH When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi... C. JOYBELL C. When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected wi... AMY SMART I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. A good script is a good script. 'Driving Miss Daisy' stands as it is. The author's intentions are cl... GREGORY MAGYAR Then the truth is this: a good man can only aspire to be worthy of a good woman. She'll always be ou... JAMES ANDERSON
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