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As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers.
Universal rushed us. We started shooting without a script that was totally completed.
I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.
I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?
I find the most interesting and most daring scripts tend to be for independent films.
When you get scripts and you really enjoy reading them, you know it's a good project.
The Indian film industry does not believe in investing financial resources in scripts.
I've always sensed what a script should sound like - even before the movie's been made
The script comes first. If that isn't good enough, you know it's gonna be a long ride.
I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.
I am glad that I am in a position to select scripts I would be comfortable working in.
Nobody goes to a movie and watches the script. There is a lot of other stuff going on.
I'm pretty sure no one's reading action scripts saying, 'This has got to be Ed Helms.'
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.
Human consciousness is too obscure a mystery to itself for us to script our own lives.
At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.
[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.
Usually, I read the script very often. I think that everything is hiding in the script.
It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.
When it comes to scripts, I take a critical look at them and then sound it off with Dad.
My main source of reading is scripts, which doesn't leave a whole lot of room for books.
The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.
I'm a very visual person, which is probably why I make videos rather than write scripts.
Sometimes if a script is based on a book, that's what you should do: represent the book.
I select good scripts, and every role is an opportunity to enhance my histrionic skills.
Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.
You tend to get a script and you push it toward being the kind of film you want to make.
With 'Brick,' I wrote the script when I was 23 and didn't make the movie until I was 30.
When I read the script for Will & Grace in 1998, I knew I was the only guy for the part.
I have been reading scripts, going to auditions and looking for the right opportunities.
Good scripts are difficult to come by in the industry, especially if you are an outsider.
I would get very frustrated reading scripts that were bilingual but maybe not bicultural.
Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.
As a kid, I was just writing scripts and taking whatever film classes I could in college.
I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it.
You're always looking for good scripts and when they're not always forthcoming you go mad.
I always give importance to scripts first, and remuneration is something that comes later.
Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest.
This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
Madam Chief Minister' is one of the most exciting scripts I have read and it possessed me.
Good scripts that are offered to me are few and far between, so I pick the best that I get.
I have a tendency to say 'yes' to a script or no to a script. Not 'yes' based on a rewrite.
Some of my scripts need the larger catchment area of Bollywood. But some suit Telugu films.
For all the hundreds of scripts that are out there, there's not that many that are amazing.
I don't know, just scripts randomly appeal to me. I'm not looking specifically at any genre.
Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you.
If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.
Even the busboys at the restaurants have a script to give you. Everybody is in the business.
Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.