Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.
If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.
I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.
Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.
The offers I get are for grandfathers, uncles - and they often die very quickly in the script.
I'd love to work on a script in collaboration.
I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.
There are no great scripts - just great films.
I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
In the 90's action pictures were all the rage. As a woman, I was fed up with them and I initially thought that the script was just another action film dressed up as a period piece.
At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.
The secret is to get a good cinematographer and a very good assistant director. If you get those and stay out of their way, and have good actresses, the script doesn't even have to be that extraordinary.
I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.
It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.
I learn the whole script before I show up.
Scripts are corny and predictable. Real life is always better.
It is easier to port a shell than a shell script.
When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.
I hope to be involved in a successful movie script.
If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.
I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.
I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising.
I was concerned about doing a sequel and repeating myself. That was before I read the script.
Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.
The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.
