David Tennant Quotes

When I get a script, it's the only time that I get to be an audience member with the first-time experience of that movie. That's the first and only time.

I do think the first time you read a script, that gut response is very important, and that probably plants a seed that continues to blossom throughout the whole experience.

It always starts with a script. I like to have plenty of time to read something, and I always like to read a paper copy. I hate reading it on email. I sit down with a script, and want to see how it hits me. It's an instinctive process.

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

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

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.

I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You can't rely on readers.

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.

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

I ensure that I read the entire script of each project that comes my way. In fact, it is the script alone that evokes my interest in any film.

I started out working as a script editor and storyliner.

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

Every time I read a script, I see the movie in my head, and I try to see the best movie in my head because everybody interprets the movie differently.

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

Sometimes reading scripts is terrible.

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

As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.

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.

Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.

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

It's funny, because what happens to me when I read a script, when something grabs hold of me, I start getting these flashes of people or places or things or images.

I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

To try to create a character without a whole lot of information can be taxing. At the same time, it's fun to just stay on your toes and let the next bit of dialogue come in, and turn the page as you read the next script and see what they have in store for you next.

Normally, when I read a script, I read 30 pages, and then go have a cup of tea and come back. And then, I read 20 pages and go make a phone call, and then go back to it.