Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.
I'm not saying I'm a writer, but I've been in movies for a long time, and I think I could write a script for a movie.
I choose movies, I never choose roles. I look at the script. I look at the director. I look at the other actors - and then the role.
I'll look at the script and I'll try to find as many books, movies, and pieces of music that I think are going to feed each scene or the character as a whole.
All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.
But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect.
A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.
If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.
I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla;' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it.
My M.O. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that.
I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.
In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
marmalade? Oh dear, I call that very feeble.
When I retired, I was at an in-between age. I wasn't a child anymore, I wasn't really a woman yet, and they weren't really writing scripts for that age.
When I was 16, I got 'Jamon, Jamon.' Of course, I had to lie about my age. And I had to lie to my parents about the content of the script.
You inherit your environment just as much as your genes.
He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing
Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.
You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.
As an actor, you want to do the best job possible, and you want the best scripts possible because it makes life more interesting.
As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
