There are so few representations of women that look remotely real in scripted television.
Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.
P.L. Travers: My point is that, unlike yourself, Mary Poppins is the very enemy of whimsy and sentiment. She's truthful. She doesn't sugarcoat the darkness in the world that these children will eventually, inevitably come to know. She prepares them f...
I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.
I learn the whole script before I show up.
I get so excited about reading a new script.
I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.
'Vinyl' is a good look at the music industry. The script was honest.
I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.
The difference between life and the movies is that a script has to make sense, and life doesn't.
Scripts are corny and predictable. Real life is always better.
The truth is, a director wins an Oscar for a writer's script and actors' performances.
I don't get a lot of romantic comedy scripts.
I'm always attracted to bold, risk-taking scripts.
If the script grabs me and appeals to me, I'm really very keen to work on it.
Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one.
If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.
If it were all in the script, why make the film?
The scripts don't come pouring in; I have to fight for every part.
I just arrive, they hand me a script and say, do it.
My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
