Ayushmann Khurrana Quotes

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.

If I read a script and find it engaging and I start making choices in my mind on how to approach the work, than that's a good indication that it is something worth pursuing.

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.

It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

I don't really decide what the core of the story is before I write. I write to figure out what the story is. And I think the characters end up talking to you and telling you what they want to be doing and what is important to them. So in some ways, your job is to listen as much as it is to write.

I think about the structure, sure. I think about what's going to happen, and how it's going to happen, and the pace. But I think if I stop to think about it in an abstract sense, I feel very daunted. I just try to enter into the story and feel my way through it. It's a very murky, intuitive way of going about it.

Usually, if you've got a great script, everything falls into place.

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

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

Writing plays, I've always felt a little like I'm guessing - less sure of what's good and what's not good. I think that's because it's not a complete work of art.

For me it's a very organic process. I read the script/hear a narration and pretty much know instantly if it's something I want to be a part of or not. It's really as simple as that.

If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

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

You don't make a film because the audience is ready for it. You make a film because you have questions that are in your gut.

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.

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.

I don't ever want to impose something on the story. I want the story to tell me.

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.

I'll often dream about characters before I start writing their stories.

I'm not sitting around thinking of ideas for TV shows.

Every script has things that would draw me away or draw me towards it. But I just try and choose as wisely as possible - when I get to choose.

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.

I always write the script by myself.