Anybody could write a bad script, and I'm one of them, you…

I find that when people get a script, they know within five pages if the writer can write. Once you're five pages in, it…

— Danny Strong

In a movie script, you know what the moments are that you really have to hit it out of the park.

— Stephen Dorff

It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

— Victoria Pratt

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…

— George Clooney

If you get a bad script, then you start expending energy trying to make a silk purse of a sow's ear. When the script's…

— Charles Dance

I've worked with genius performers. Sometimes they created great work with a bad script... but not often. Play it safe: write well.

— Jerry Juhl

I always want to read the script and know everything and at least understand the context of the world that you're in and why…

— Laurence Fishburne

I read a script and I know immediately whether that role is for me or not.

— Jennifer Coolidge

Many times, I like to read the script before I even know who they want me to play, so I can read it and…

— William H. Macy

I always think it's interesting to switch genres, because if I read a script and I know exactly how to manifest a story, I…

— Marc Forster

Of course, when you work with actors and when you work on a script everything that you know about the human experience can't possibly…

— Deniz Gamze Erguven

Usually you read a script and you know somebody who knows somebody who maybe knew that person or met them once.

— Amanda Schull

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script,…

— Robert Wise

On film, it's really nice to see that transformation from the beginning, reading the script, to know where he starts and where he ends,…

— Cameron Monaghan

You read a script, and you know if you need to do it.

— Suranne Jones