Victor Garber Quotes

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

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.

I get so excited about reading a new script.

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.

Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one.

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

How can you turn down Marks and Gran? Their scripts are so rich in texture.

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.

Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end.

'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.

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

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'm just a sucker for a good script.

I am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say.

I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My dialogue is good. And my stories are really involving.

By the time I wrote 'Any Given Sunday' or 'Bats,' I sort of knew what my job was in terms of what a writer of dialogue does.

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

I don't read that many books - I tend to read scripts for projects.

I read a lot of script. In my opinion, most of them aren't good or aren't about people.

It was really fun to start writing movies because you could actually take characters whose voice you enjoy writing in and have actual things happen to them for more than five minutes. It was really fun to thread it together.

I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.

I just want to work on good scripts.