Complaining Quote by Viggo Mortensen

In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written,…

— Viggo Mortensen

If you are still thinking about a script after five or ten years, that's a sign that it's good - not that it's stale.…

— Jason Blum

Generally, screenplays suck.

— Grant Heslov

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when…

— Paul Rudd

On every film, there are producers all over the place, and everyone's got to have an opinion. I think the screenplay is a beautiful…

— Sam Shepard

It's rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don't want to work…

— Richard Gere

There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.

— Alan Bennett

Most aspiring screenwriters simply don't spend enough time choosing their concept. It's by far the most common mistake I see in spec scripts. The…

— Terry Rossio

There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.

— Scott Speedman

I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to…

— William Boyd

I feel the best scripts are those that are originally written to be films: that is film in its purest sense.

— Makoto Shinkai