(For instance, Pauline Kael as seen in Brian Kellow's soon-to-be-published biography of her tried to become a playwright, which goes far to explain the script-and-actor-centrism of the criticism she would ultimately write).
First, though, he wanted to find a collaborator; otherwise, he explained, the script would have consisted of "just me going to strip clubs".
He gives his actors only the most general instructions; though he is extraordinarily careful not to let the text of his scripts leak out before or during production, he gives his actors free rein to modify the text on the set, explaining, "The script is just a blueprint".
Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman met with Snyder twice during the later stages of pre-production to further revise the script, although Snyder explained the script was merely a document for the studio, and it was his storyboards that were his true guide while making the movie.
They explained the term "script kiddies".
Beginning in the late 1980's, he gave an advanced graduate seminar on Arabic calligraphy, in which he explained the earliest scripts -- the angular style of the script of the Koran, coins and architectural decoration and the cursive styles used in contracts, documents and, much later, in all decoration.
"Friends, the producers, everyone thought I was kind of crazy," said Ms. Holofcener, who hired a voice coach, crossed her fingers and then made lots of nervous jokes about how the script would explain the differing accents.
After the bus was unintentionally damaged in Dubai by a shipping container, Davies rewrote the script to explain the damage in the narrative.
The MSCC developed a script to explain the key messages (available on request).
The administrator used a standardized script to explain the requirements of the questionnaires, and any questions were answered.
