Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.

- Abigail Breslin

I would love to occasionally do English-speaking films, but the script is as important for me as the director.

- Audrey Tautou

I like it when you read a script and there's the part that you show to the other characters and then there's the part that only the audience knows.

- Anjelica Huston

I want to take roles that challenge me and I want to like the script and obviously feel connected with the director because the director to me is so important.

- Amy Smart

But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect.

- Alison Lohman

I really would have been stupid not to have done it. It was also a film that was actually happening, I mean, Miramax was doing it, and it had a kind of legitimacy to it. And once I read the script, I was there.

- Adam Arkin

I think I read films having grown up around the pre-production and post-production aspect of the filmmaking medium, a lot more than most young people who are in acting would have experienced. I do think about scripts in a different way. I can't just read a script as an actor. I don't know how to do that.

- Alice Englert

When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical.

- Alia Shawkat

I don't really look for a script and go, 'I need to do a thriller, so I'm going to do this.' I just read scripts and look for the best possible story.

- Alex Pettyfer

All we did in Alabama was have a read through with the script, but there was, 'No, well, it needs more. You've got to do this, Albert. You've got to do that, Jessica.' It didn't feel like that at all.

- Albert Finney

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.

- Al Pacino

A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.

- Abel Ferrara

When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.

- Adam Schlesinger

The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.

- Antonio Banderas

I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the right person for; because if you've never made a film, you're not taught how to make a film, and you feel like you lack skills.

- Anton Corbijn

I think that when you first read material or you first read a script or story and know you might be playing a part, it's important not to see yourself because it should be a challenge enough that it doesn't come easy.

- Ansel Elgort

If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.

- Andre Braugher

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

- Alexander Payne

When I read for 'Girls,' I was like, 'The script says 'Handsome Carpenter,' so someone else is going to get the part. They'll have someone handsome, not me.'

- Adam Driver

Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.

- Abbas Kiarostami