Meryl Streep Quotes

It's not like I have boxes of scripts arriving at my door.

Most of the scripts that land on my desk are stuff you read and go, 'Is someone really gonna make this?'

For all the hundreds of scripts that are out there, there's not that many that are amazing.

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.

Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with.

I think a good script is a rare thing, and I think no matter who you are you have to fight for the good ones.

You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.

I don't have a stack of scripts that, when I get home, studios are clamoring, saying, 'Has Bob read ours yet?'

You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.

When you get scripts and you really enjoy reading them, you know it's a good project.

Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all.

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

I do get a fair amount of scripts; I got 'Frozen River' kinda just that way. I have a hard time turning my back on anybody who says they have something for me.

I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.

It's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

You would not believe some of the scripts I have seen. I have read something like 160 that I've rejected, and I keep them all, for posterity.

Whenever I hear the narration for a new film, I have this process back home where my mother reads all my scripts.

I look for scripts that give me a gut feeling that this is going to work.

I've read many great samples, both of existing shows I liked and original pilots, and definitely hired the writers - or, at least, tried to!

Good scripts are difficult to come by in the industry, especially if you are an outsider.

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.

I get a lot of emails of scripts and pilots, and they want me to give feedback, and sometimes I can't because it's so many.

I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.