Badshah Quotes

I'm really calculating when it comes to these scripts - I'm really calculated about character behavior and dialogue.

To be honest, I have never thought about the intricacies of a script.

For me, screenwriting is all about setting characters in motion and as a writer just chasing them. They should tell you what they'll do in any scene you put them in.

I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.

By the time I wrote 'Any Given Sunday' or 'Bats,' I sort of knew what my job was in terms of what a writer of dialogue does.

If you have a great script and great dialogue, you don't need to improvise.

There are definitely scripts I start reading, where it doesn't interest me. Maybe it'll be a good movie, but the character doesn't intrigue me.

I think what I look for in a script, it's the relatability quotient that matters the most.

I realized later how much my acting experience influenced my writing and how it helped me to write for other actors.

To find a good script is very important, because the chances and opportunities I would be getting will be very far and few.

A good script makes our job a lot easier.

It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.

I remember my dad working with me on breaking down my script and writing out a back story for my character and all that stuff.

I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters.

In television writing, you want to hear what the characters say as opposed to giving them something to say. It's the same with the cartoons.

I'm just a sucker for a good script.

Almost every script that I've gotten has been for sort of the generic Hollywood type. I haven't chosen them. All the ones I have chosen are because I've been fascinated with the source material or because of the script.

The script is a blueprint for the film - there are very few bad scripts that make good movies. If you really like the character and understand the utility it serves within the movie, that's a part of my process.

When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.

My characters have to talk, or they're out. They audition in early scenes. If they can't talk, they're given less to do, or thrown out.

'A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.

Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.

I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill to play, and I try to create them for others.

When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can't do that, the show will fail.

I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.