I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.
I'm probably working on three different scripts at any time, so there's never a time where I've got nothing to do.
I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, 'Oh, okay, babe,' and I see it in scripts all the time.
I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.
I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.
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.
Work harder than everybody. Read scripts, watch movies. Help other writers, it makes you better. And probably move to L.A.
If I showed you scripts from my first few movies, the descriptions of my characters all said 'the ugly girl'.
India needs better producers than screenwriters. No producer wants to invest in out-of-the way scripts.
Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.
I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don't know why. It's not something conscious or that I'm doing on purpose.
My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me.
And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.
Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it was enough to say and imagine what was in the script. It was very easy for me.
If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best.
It's madness to hand in a script to a director, leave them alone, and for the director not to want the writer there with rehearsals and the shoot.
Sometimes a butterfly flaps its wings and the weather turns out fine.
You need to bridge the gap between reality and freedom. Drugs are the bridge.
One thing, however, is certain in life. No one survives it.
Sometimes the best thing you could do is a real bad film... you could improvise all over the place and probably only improve the script.
Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.
