Rewrite Quotes

In theatre, there`s the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it`s the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me. It`s been amazing for me to see the self-confidence of actors who insist on having control, because it`s going to be their faces 20ft high in the posters. I`ve been shocked by film actors - 25 and under - having such confidence and cockiness to rewrite a scene. My background is more about the director being in control. It`s all about yielding. It`s an oddly submissive relationship in which you`re moulded, Pygmalion-style.

(On War and Peace (1956) and referring to author of book Leo Tolstoy) When I first agreed to do it, the screenplay by Irwin Shaw was fine, but what happened? King Vidor used to go home nights with his wife and rewrite it. All the genius of Tolstoy went out the window.

That`s a little Screen Gems horror flick that David Winkler, son of famous director Irwin Winkler, directed and basically rewrote while we were shooting it, which is always a tricky situation, ... I think that if I had known it was going to be a complete rewrite during shooting, it may have been something I would have thought about a little longer.

Like, every couple of months you read, they rewrite, you come back in, they`ve animated more stuff - they usually videotape you while you`re reading it - so they`ll incorporate some gestures and some facial expressions into it.

A lot of actors get concerned about their own image, even going so far as to rewrite a movie to best serve that image. All I want to do is be in good movies.

I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite.

I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

When I first agreed to do it the screenplay by Irwin Shaw was fine, but what happened? King Vidor used to go home nights with his wife and rewrite it. All the genius of Tolstoy went out the window. - On War and Peace (1956)

You have to write badly to write at all. If it`s crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself.

I don`t know, I just sort of follow my own momentum, whatever that is. I`m not, like, on the rewrite circuit, or on the stand-up circuit.

To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: `We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,` and when you ask what`s left, they say: `Well, the typing is very good.`

I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.

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Look, it was awesome, ... Winning a championship in Boston was awesome, but I needed to turn the page. I`m here now. I don`t want to rewrite that chapter, I want to write a new chapter, winning a championship on this side.

Here`s the secret to finishing that first book. Don`t rewrite as you go.

I can create institutions, but I can`t rewrite the chips in people`s heads.