Ewan McGregor Quotes

You can't make a good movie with a bad script, no matter who's involved.

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

The film industry sees the writer as fungible: The thinking goes, As long as we have Brad Pitt and all this money, we have a great film! No, you need a writer with voice and an engaging story, or what you have is a bomb.

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

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

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the filmmaker to pick from.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

My preference is for good writing. It doesn't matter if it's for film or TV. Whatever. It starts with the writing. Even though I've had problems with writers, it doesn't matter how great of an actor you are. If the writing is bad, you're going to struggle.

A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are you're going to have a good movie.

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

I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.

Siva is one of the best writers in the industry, and 'Srimanthudu' is a great script.

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

I know firsthand how much work has usually gone into a screenplay, so if there's something that rings false or a line that I would think would need a tweak or something, I will think long and hard before I even recommend changing it. In that sense, I'm very faithful to the scripts that I get - if they're good scripts.

If you do not have a good script, then no matter what the genre is, the film will not be a success.

For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.

Whether it's TV shows or the films that I've done, it's always a priority for me that the entire script should be good.

You can have an amazing director and terrible script, and the film's not going to be great. But if you have the most incredible script and an okay director, you could still get a really good film.

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

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.

Good scripts are hard to find.

It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.

The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas.

The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.