David Yates famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.
-- David Yates

#Scripts
In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts. A lot of Hollywood films tend to be bloated, bombastic, loud. At the same time, I do like the infrastructure of making a blockbuster; it's like having a big train set.
-- David Yates

#Drama #Hollywood #World
I like happy sets. Happy sets are good, and I think people feel comfortable on them.
-- David Yates

#Thinking #People #Feels
I like to create an atmosphere where actors feel safe enough to take risks.
-- David Yates

#Risk #Atmosphere #Actors
I'm a Harry Potter fan.
-- David Yates

#Fans #Potters #Harry Potter
In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.
-- David Yates

#Drama #Scripts #Tvs
You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?
-- David Yates

#Directors #Balls #Want
I love 'The Stand;' I read it when I was a kid - it was one of my favorite books when I was growing up. I love Stephen King; I think he's a remarkable writer.
-- David Yates

#Kings #Growing Up #Book
My own idea about 3D is that it is there to enhance the viewing experience but I don't think that you have to use it in a tricky way, I think that the minute you sacrifice story and character for something coming out of the screen, I think you've lost it.
-- David Yates

#Character #Sacrifice #Thinking

Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
A script is not a piece of literature it's a process.
I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.
I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.
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.
I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.
I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.
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.
The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.
I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.

David Yates famous quotes

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