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"I came across the script [42], and I read it, and I said, "I really want to do this." And when I had my agent call, they said, ah, you know, it's not what they're looking for. So, OK. And then I let it go for a while, and then it just kept gnawing at me, so I kept pushing."
"My scripts are always filled with notes. I like to just analyze everything from the point of view of the whole picture, of the movie, my whole picture."
"If I do do a sequel, I'm going to have to know for sure that the script is better than the original. So I'm going to be very careful about that because I'm not eager to repeat myself."
"On Phantom... I listened to the music while I was reading the script. And it had just blown me away. I really... I was so excited about it. It's been a long time since I really got so excited about something."
"When you're developing a story, for me anyway, it's all so important to get the script right, especially when you're telling the story of an icon. You've got to get it right. Otherwise, you'll get killed by critics and fans."
"It [moviemaking] is not really done on a yearly basis. It's about how the material, and when the material comes in. If you develop your material and the script comes in great and you can attach a director and a cast and go off and make it, then I could make, I don't know, six [movies] a year. Or I could make one. It really depends."
"I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success."
"The thing I loved about this movie [Waitress] when I read the script was that it was exactly the kind of film that I love to watch. It's not just funny, it's serious, just when you need it to be and true to life in a way."
"A lot of times, the script is the thing they care about least."
"Acting, films, scripts, is literally the only thing I’m 100 percent confident in. I know what I’m doing. I just understand it, and I love it. When I’m on set, that’s when I feel the most at home and in control."
"There are directors that I want to work with and that I admire. You can love a script, but if it doesn't have a good director, it won't be that."
"I'd like to think that I have a plan, but you can't really pick what scripts you're going to get or what movie is going to come along."
"Sometimes if a script is based on a book, that's what you should do: represent the book."
"I'm always looking for films, but the horror scripts that I get tend to be very repetitive and often not that interesting."
"If you read a script enough, especially a good script - I try to read it 40 to 50 times before you begin so you get a sense of the arc: what happens before, what happens after, what happens during."
"What happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images."
"I was really not familiar at all with Edward Snowden. I like to get that right out of the way and really learned most of what I know from Oliver's [Stones] script."
"I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts."
"It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget movies have no perks, but what is the driving force, of course, is the script, and your part in it."
"Without being good enough, I started figuring out how to make my way through the minefield of a script, which is what it was to me at the time, and the rest is semi-history."
