No matter what identity we cling to, it takes great courage to step out of the old masks we wear and the old scripts that we live by, and open ourselves to the mysterious inner core of our being.
Let's make movies, not deals. Let's write movies, not scripts.
Whenever I'm offered something, I always read the script and meet the director. I still appreciate just being considered.
It is very hard because there are not a lot of female driven scripts.
I'm an unashamed realist, and actually, I try to make whatever the script is the reality of that situation, even though it's fictional.
I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing.
Nobody is out to sabotage an entire script and do an improvisational experiment of a movie, but when they're feeling something in the moment, let them make it their own. That's what makes them great actors.
Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.
My primary job is to choose the programs, either to co-produce them, or acquire them after they're finished. So, I read a lot of scripts, I meet with producers and I read a lot of books.
A lot of people have an opinion on scripts, but they aren't equipped to diagnose what the problems are. You realize that scriptwriting is such a specialist subject, but because it's so common, everyone thinks that they can talk about that. I think it's something that writers only know, that they can see.
The first thing I thought [when I read the script] was that Frasier was an intellectual at some points but also an Everyman - flawed and very insecure.
There are a lot of considerations that come into play when you craft one of these 'Saw' scripts, and there's only so much you can put into them.
Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.
Highland has changed my entire way of working with scripts. I use it every day.
I've always felt that I'm in a spontaneous business and if you script something, if you plan something, it will sound that way.
Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.
[Making movies is] 80% script and 20% getting great actors. There's nothing else to it.
How can I change me to suit the script?
Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.