The only thing that works is a good script!
The action star's life is very short. Back in Asia, I can do whatever I want to do. I'm the producer, I'm the director, I can do so many things, but in Hollywood any time I present a script they say: "No, no, no, Rush Hour 3, Rush Hour 4."
I always want to read the script before I totally commit.
Sometimes my interest in working on a film is not always dictated specifically by the character. Sometimes it's simply about wanting to be a part of a vision that I love, or a script that I love. I find exciting and gratifying.
If Gucci handbags were still in fashion Greenaway would carry his scripts in them.
I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional.
I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.
A woman is just a script, but a cigar is a motion picture.
Everything is in a script for a reason, and only by being part of a writing team (or writing it yourself), do you really understand the intention of every beat.
When you are working on a script, the story itself is not difficult. You say this would happen and then this, resulting perhaps in this. And the dialogue you make as true as you can.
Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.
There's nothing better than finishing something and looking at it. Whether it be a script or a movie, it's this complete little thing that now exists and is hopefully immortal.
Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.
The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.
[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.
A lot of shows are more script-driven, like a prose script. As an actor, you never see a storyboard.
The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never written into Ryan's script: daughter.
The script is simply a series of notes for the film.
Prayers are prophecies. They are the best predictors of your spiritual future. Who you become is determined by how you pray. Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.
I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.
There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.
Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head.
Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.
Whenever I'm offered something, I always read the script and meet the director. I still appreciate just being considered.
