Quotes About Script

I believe I am God's favorite comedian. I think he is a really big comedy writer. He writes scripts. And I just follow along.

If I have a script, I tend to stick to it even if God may be leading me elsewhere in the moment.

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.

I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.

Good acting is all in the writing. If it isn't on the page, then it really won't make any difference. You cannot act on force of personality alone.

It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

The script for 'In Good Company' was the first one I ever showed my dad.

Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.

I want to be in a good movie, and so the narrative is way more important.

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

Always care for the writing part first. Every good film project starts with good writing. If you have a good script, everything else follows. Writing is crucial.

All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.

Id like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.

A trap screenwriters can fall into is making scripts that are good reads, which doesn't necessarily mean it will make a good film.

The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.

The script comes first. If that isn't good enough, you know it's gonna be a long ride.

In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.

To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script.

[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.

You live for those really great scenes where you almost feel that the film has gone beyond what was printed on the script pages and been raised to another level.

Abundant living is realizing that life is a privilege whether it's adhering to our scripts or not.