Well, I love TV, and I love a good script.
I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.
When good things come in, my agent calls or sends me the script. But I allow them to sort through the offers so that I am not just sitting and reading everything because honestly, sometimes the scripts that appeal to me are projects that are not good...
I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.
It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there.
I don't want this big stardom thing. I just want a good script.
I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.
Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.
I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.
It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more.
A good script and perfect casting, that's 90 percent of the work.
You're always looking for good scripts and when they're not always forthcoming you go mad.
Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.
I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.
A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.
At the same time, reading an action script... It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don't know.
I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.
If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need the scr...
When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.
Memorizing a playbook is like memorizing a script. When they change the script at the last minute it's like changing a play in a game.
My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.
