Gradually he became convinced that the script was the trouble ...

So George just told David he would not work any longer if the script was not better and he wanted the Howard script back ... he would not let his name go out over a lousy picture ... And bull-headed David said ' OK get out!

It was because they read the script ...

Of the film, Hanks has remarked: " When I read the script for Gump, I saw it as one of those kind of grand, hopeful movies that the audience can go to and feel ... some hope for their lot and their position in life ...

Mendes is indecisive, saying the script seemed to be about something different each time he read it: " a mystery story, a kaleidoscopic journey through American suburbia, a series of love stories ... it was about imprisonment ... loneliness beauty.

Turan felt that Mendes ' accomplishment was to " capture and enhance duality " of Ball's script — the simultaneously " caricatured ... and painfully real " characters.

He had hopes they would work together again ; he quotes Wayne as saying, about a couple of months after filming wrapped on The Shootist, " I found a good script, kid ... it's you and me, or it's nobody.

Bezzerides wrote of the script: " I wrote it fast because I had contempt for it ...

Sobered by his experience with Lester, Fraser said that further film adaptations of the Flashman books have not been made because he " will not let anyone else have control of the script ... and that simply does not happen in Hollywood.

According to Vito Russo in the book The Celluloid Closet ( 1981, revised 1987 ), the script originally had Grant's character say " I ...

Although the review in the New York Times called the film " the most brilliant picture yet this year " and praised Sturges's mix of escapist fun with underlying significance, the Hollywood Reporter said that it lacked the " down to earth quality and sincerity which made other three pictures a joy to behold " and that " Sturges ... fails to heed the message that writer Sturges proves in his script.

And now, by George, he's almost matched it with My Darling Clementine ... But even with standard Western fiction — and that's what the script has enjoined — Mr. Ford can evoke fine sensations and curiously-captivating moods.

Breen objected to " illicit sexual relationships " between characters in the movie " without sufficient compensating moral values ", and also objected to " the general suggestion of loose sex ... which carries throughout the entire script.

It's a very unusual performance in that he's very funny, he's physically comic, but he's also strangely graceful, a pleasure to watch ... It looked very expensive even though it wasn't and that's a feat ... The earlier script I saw was disappointing ( but ) they took it back and worked on it and it's hugely improved.

Playwright Patrick Marber, whose early collaborations with Coogan included The Day Today and being the principal writer of both radio and TV versions of Knowing Me, Knowing You ... with Alan Partridge, has also been working on the script, but the pair put their plans on hold following the London bombings, for fear the screenplay would appear in bad taste.

As it was written in a program note that accompanied the movie's premier " It is a modern poem presented with medieval material that has been very freely handled ... The script in particular — embodies a mid-twentieth century existentialist angst .... Still, to be fair to Bergman, one must allow him his artistic license, and the script's modernisms may be justified as giving the movie's medieval theme a compelling and urgent contemporary relevance ... Yet the film succeeds to a large degree because it is set in the Middle Ages, a time that can seem both very remote and very immediate to us living in the modern world .... Ultimately The Seventh Seal should be judged as a historical film by how well it combines the medieval and the modern.

According to an interview on May 16, 2008, the rights to an Anno Dracula movie have been optioned, and Newman has written a script, but " I don't know if there's much movement on it ... Over the years, I've had a few comics people say they'd be interested and even an occasional game nibble, but no one has ever come up with a solid deal.

Cuse said getting Campbell " was just one of those collisions between an actor and a script that was just perfect ...

With bidirectional script support, it is possible to mix scripts from different scripts on the same page, regardless of writing direction.

Notable American films from the war years include the anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine ( 1943 ), scripted by Dashiell Hammett ; Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Hitchcock's direction of a script by Thornton Wilder ; the George M. Cohan biopic, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), starring James Cagney, and the immensely popular Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart.

Its most salient feature is its vertical direction ; it is the only vertical script that is written from left to right.

When the film was first released, The New York Times film critic Frank S. Nugent praised the film, writing, " The comedy, through Mr. Douglas's debonair performance and those of Ina Claire as the duchess and Sig Rumann, Felix Bressart and Alexander Grannach as the unholy three emissaries ; through Mr. Lubitsch's facile direction ; and through the cleverly written script of Walter Reisch, Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder, has come off brilliantly.

It won four Guldbagge Awards, including best film, best actress ( shared by the two girls Rebecka Liljeberg and Alexandra Dahlström ), best direction and best script.

In the opinion of Stedman, this serial is an improvement on The Perils of Pauline, with better acting, script and direction.

In a " shooting script ", each scene is numbered, and technical direction may be given.

" Variety, on the other hand, criticized the direction and script: " Elia Kazan's direction strives for a personal intimacy but neither he nor the John Steinbeck scripting achieves in enough measure.

The concert went under the direction of Walter Bobbie and featured an adapted script by David Ives.

Glenn Erickson of DVD Talk reviewed the DVD release of Hellcats, and thought that although the direction was " competent ", the script was " completely derivative and cornball ".

With complete control of the script and direction, Kitano uses this film to cement his style: shocking violence, bizarre black humor and stoically shot ' still ' scenes.

* Right-to-left, writing direction of a script such as Arabic and Hebrew

In the original script, Homer and Bart were not talking in the scene where they concealed their private parts with mud and moss, but Sam Simon thought it would be " too funny to leave as a stage direction " and they added dialogue to the scene.

The script was " written " to its final form during shooting, with cast members improvising freely and collaborating in the direction of scenes.

Jon Cooksey was assigned to write the script for the first film, but as of August 2008, he was dropped due to Rainmaker deciding to take a different direction with the story.

I cannot argue for the script, the direction, the acting or even the mummy, but I can say that I was not bored and sometimes I was unreasonably pleased.

We ran like banshees through that house, and Mike would hide behind doorways and jump out and scare us .” Melissa said about Landon who took the script in a new direction, “ He put frogs in his mouth, we had a script supervisor.

TV Guide calls the movie " One of the great film noir classics to come out of the 1940s, The Mask of Dimitrios boasts no superstars, just uniformly fine talents, a terrific script full of subtle intrigue and surprises, and Negulesco's exciting direction.

The film was widely praised for its originality, both in terms of the script, which won Kaufman the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay, and Jonze's direction.

The sword points to the left on both sides, in the direction of the script.

It grew into an original project under the direction of Takashi Tezuka, with a story and script created by Yoshiaki Koizumi and Kensuke Tanabe.

Referring to the serial while discussing the early years of Doctor Who, the New Scientists Malcolm Peltu praised the script, acting and direction, although he was less complimentary about the scenary, which, he says, looks like cardboard.

Reasons given for this include the writing, direction, script, and camerawork of its producer / director, Courtney Solomon, as well as the acting of Marlon Wayans, Jeremy Irons, and Thora Birch.