Always Quote by Viggo Mortensen

Every year I hear people complain that the quality of screenplays and movies is declining. In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written…

— Viggo Mortensen

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

— Makoto Shinkai

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

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

Once you've written a good script, it will get made or not get made, according to variables you cannot control, like stars getting interested,…

— Jon Spaihts

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.

— Helen McCrory

A lot of our favorite comedies in general are usually directed by writers, whether or not they wrote the original script themselves.

— Jon Hurwitz

Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make.

— James Salter

Good scripts have always been, I think, hard to find. Good storytelling, good writing - it's just not easy. I have made it a…

— Chris Cooper

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

What has always been at the heart of film making was the value of a script. It was really the writer who could make…

— Douglas Fairbanks, Jr

For all filmmakers: True originality is the key, only direct your own unique movie scripts, be a megalomaniac and not give a damn.

— Tom Six