script quotes

There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.

- Alan Bennett
  A Private Function, introduction to published screenplay.

Whatever your script is like, no matter how much stewing and rewritingif the punters don't want to sleep with the star, you may never be asked to write another one.

- Richard WhalleyAnthony Curtis
  Introduction to the published script of Four Weddings and a Funeral.

Dear J W, have the bank president finish the script.

-JuliusJ Epstein
Response to a note from  Jack Warner which had read 'Railroad presidents get in at nine o'clock, bank presidents get in at nine o'clock, read your contract, you're coming in at nine o'clock.' Quoted in  Aljean Harmetz Round Up the Usual Suspects (1993).

Worst script I've ever read.

- Peter Mullan
  On Braveheart. In The Herald,1 Feb.