Michelle Dockery Quotes

If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.

There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything. And if you don't connect to that foundation, if you don't believe in that and feel that you wanna spend three, four months of your life exploring it, then all of the other elements are secondary.

I'm kind of down for anything, as long as it's an amazing script that speaks to me, so I'm just constantly reading and constantly looking.

I'm consistently blown away by 'Mad Men.' Having spent so much time in the writers' room, I'm cursed in that anytime I watch something, I'm always calculating what the writers are up to.

Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.

I work in a dramatic context, meaning we write with a lot of character specifics, a lot of story specifics. There's a lot of architecture in our songs.

In school, I used to write scripts and all that good stuff.

I tried writing a novel, but plays were the thing that kept feeding me, asking me to come back, sit down and be with them.

A good script makes our job a lot easier.

If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

I am not an analytical writer. Once I flesh out my characters and decide on the elements of my plot, the story unfolds in my head almost as though it was a movie reel.

'Safe' was a script that I read and flipped out for.

I love writing letters. In order to write a novel in first person, I think I needed an addressee.

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

When I wrote for TV, I was always thinking in terms of character and story. After fifteen years, it became hard-wired in me.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

I look forward to every script that comes down the pike.

The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the way I know them after the year or two it takes to write a novel.

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

When you read a script, you get a feeling from it.

I don't have a stack of scripts.

I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors have an understanding of drama and a good ear for dialogue and also the rhythm of speech. Similarly, my 16 years in radio drama has influenced me. You only have 45 minutes, or 7,000 words, to tell a story, so every scene has to have a point.

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.