Quotes of Handwriting - somelinesforyou

“ The handwriting on the wall may be a forgery. ”

- Ralph Hodgson

“ I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability… but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad. ”

- Andrew Greeley

“ There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. ”

- W. Somerset Maugham

“ If I've still got my pants on in the second scene, I think they've sent me the wrong script. ”

- Mel Gibson

“ I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around. ”

- Christian Bale

“ Just get it down on paper, and then we'll see what to do with it. ”

- Maxwell Evarts Perkins

“ But when you're writing a script - for me anyway - you have to sort of create an enforced innocence. You have to divest yourself of worrying about a lot of stuff like what movies are hot, what movies are not hot, what the budget of this movie might be. ”

- David Cronenberg

“ I started writing this feature comedy in New York - a Chris Farley vehicle. The script was decent. When I got to LA, I met some new friends in film school and had them read my script and give me notes. ”

- David Steinberg

“ Trouble not thyself about the fate of thy writings: if what thou hast writ be worth preserving, no flood, however mighty, can sweep it away; if it be worthless, no ink, however prepared, can make it indelible. ”

- Ivan Panin

“ I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me. ”

- Ben Kingsley

“ And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true. ”

- Keanu Reeves

“ And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing. ”

- Augusten Burroughs

“ I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind. ”

- Buster Keaton

“ I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe. ”

- Neil Gaiman

“ I look at scripts as a whole, and often that gets me in trouble. ”

- Cameron Diaz

“ You know, the better scripts I've seen lately have been comedy scripts. ”

- Vince Vaughn

“ I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch. ”

- Jimmy Fallon

“ I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch. ”

- Count Basie

“ These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one. ”

- Joel Coen

“ If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else. ”

- Tom Wilkinson

“ If I were to modernize the script, I would have betrayed existence. ”

- Bob Smith

“ I am told that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it. ”

- J.R.R. Tolkien

“ I'm lucky; people write scripts for me. ”

- Catherine Deneuve

“ I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't! ”

- Hugh Grant

“ Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. ”

- Carl Sandburg

“ I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script. ”

- Ralph Fiennes

“ I like to make all kinds of movies. I'd do 'Ocean's Thirteen' with the right script. ”

- Steven Soderbergh

“ Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas. ”

- Michael Caine

“ My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work. ”

- Michael Caine

“ I wrote a script that I thought had a lot of potential. ”

- David Cronenberg
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