Elvis knew so little about moviemaking that when he arrived for the first day of shooting, he had memorized not only his dialogue but also the entire script.
Bark also said the show made itself a "target for charges of racism" by making the three murderers black, but also credited the script with making one of the perpetrators so sympathetic.
He not only directs the videos, but also writes the scripts, does the overdubbing and composes the scores.
Recently, while attending the Rainbow Families DC conference, I heard a better answer, one that is more challenging, but also rewrites the script in a way that moved me.
Not just to the script, but also the internet, its thrall.
But Wagstaff has had some high- calibre help along the way in the form not only of Faulks, who has offered notes on each update of the script, but also the play's director – one Trevor Nunn, whose involvement has brought the theatrical gravitas (and name) set to make Birdsong one of the hottest tickets in town.
The images of this production are persistently haunting, thanks not only to Mr. Olmos's audacious, almost novelistic script but also the inventive contributions of the director, Meiyin Wang, and her stellar design team.
The constitutive function of narratives includes not just naming the problem, but also scripting the identities and roles of the various actors involved in it.
Yet none of these endeavors — the professional ones at least — has demanded as much of Mr. Seinfeld as "Bee Movie," a studio feature with a budget of about $150 million for which he not only supplied the voice of the lead character, a wisecracking honeybee named Barry B. Benson, but also helped write the script and spent nearly four years overseeing every element of the production.
I even stole some of my little friends' best lines: i.e. 'penis breath.' What adult woman could have thought of that?" Mathison's spare but impressive résumé also includes the script to Martin Scorsese's bio-pic of the fourteenth Dalai Lama, "Kundun".
