Scripts Quotes - Page 26

I love horror films, so I guess it's one of those things where I find myself interested in the script.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.

I'm pretty sure no one's reading action scripts saying, 'This has got to be Ed Helms.'

Novels are a marathon, while comic scripts are a sprint.

I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

You can have a great script, or a great director and a bad script, and get a great movie. Nothing really guarantees anything.

If I'm not in love with the script, there's nothing. It doesn't matter what you give me. It has to start with the script.

I like to flip through play scripts, not just my own; there is something exciting about seeing printed language on a page that triggers responses in me.

But most scripts are terrible. Most projects are bad, that's just kind of the way it is. And I'm not really attracted to those.

When I choose projects, I don't stipulate between film or theatre or television. I receive scripts and I read scripts - and when I read a script that's good, I then get married to it and talk to my agent about what happens next.

I always pick what I consider to be good scripts.

Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.

I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.

I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

You don't have to kill somebody to play a murderer. You have to read the script and interpret the character.

Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly go in.

When you have great scripts, everything is very easy and fun.

I have always believed that chemistry can't be created between two people. You either have it or you don't. The script can only enhance it.

In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

Highland has changed my entire way of working with scripts. I use it every day.

After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.