Sissy Spacek Quotes

I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.

I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.

Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.

My parameter of judging a script has not changed over the years. I still go for a script where the story interests me. Yes, there are times where I might go wrong; say, out of five scripts, I might go wrong on one.

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.

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

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

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.

I am very selective when it comes to scripts.

When it comes to scripts, I take a critical look at them and then sound it off with Dad.

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

When you start out as an actor, you read a script thinking of it at its best. But that's not usually the case in general, and usually what you have to do is you have to read a script and think of it at its worst. You read it going, "OK, how bad could this be?" first and foremost. You cannot make a good film out of a bad script. You can make a bad film out of a good script, but you can't make a good film out of a bad script.

I read a lot of scripts, so I know by page 25 if I like it or not.

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

I don't write anything off without reading a script, and if it's a good one, I'll consider it, whether it's for $20 or a million dollars.

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

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.

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 have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite.

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.

You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

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.

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.