I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like.
I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of something.
I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.
It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
Every single time I read a script I'm breathless as I turn the pages.
I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books.
It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it.
I'm so respectful of good writing. It's the blueprint for the movie. You have to have that script there because, if you don't, you're going to have problems. It's very important. It's also a gut instinct.
Unfortunately, we don't have a depth of African scriptwriters, so it's easier to Africanize something that already works. Local script writers are giving me James Bond budget scenes that I can't even produce.
I can't imagine being invested in someone else's script.
To do someone else's script? I don't think I'd have a reason.
I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten script, because I'm of the procrastinator class.
I was deliciously happy filming True Blood. I even kept all the scripts in my office, which I never do with any script. Although I did shred them all in one go when the series finished; it seemed like a ritual, somehow.
For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots.
I get so excited about reading a new script.
They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation.
To be fair to ourselves, in almost every original script, the timing is actually worked out down to the minute.
Only a few of us will admit it, but actors will sometimes read a script like this: bullshit...bullshit...my part...blah, blah, blah...my part...bullshit.
If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.
When you pick up a script you want to do you generally have a theme you're trying to work with, and then it expands from that.
How can I change me to suit the script?
My own mentality is that I've retired. They send me these scripts and if I absolutely have to do it, then I go to work.
The moment that you start to read a script, you're watching the movie in your mind, and that's the one moment that you have. Then, you go off to make the movie and you become so lost in it.
I could cover the gamut. It's cool though you go in for an hour, read the script, leave and you got a check.
I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.
