Script Problems Quotes

In general, when moviemakers talk to scientists, they usually see them as a resource to solve particular technical problems or script problems for them. So, something like: what sort of weaponry would aliens be able to wield?

My experience is, I do a table reading, and it's literally like it's written in colossal neon lights what's wrong with the screenplay.

The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room.

Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time.

And I don't think I'm giving away any secrets here, but there are a lot of terrible scripts in this town.

When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.

'Sleepless' was a script that had been written by three or four other writers before me, and it never really worked, but it had this amazing ending on the top of the Empire State Building that just worked, no matter what came before it.

I actually had a chance to be in Delta Farce, but I couldn't do it because I read the script.

It's a lot of work to read a crummy script.

So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.

You can't fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as they move to the big screen.

Finding a good script is really difficult and the scariest thing of all is when they say about a script that's not right, "we will fix it.." It's like before you get on the Titanic and you see a big hole. In process, it's too late.

I love it when actors come to you with a problem and you have to listen. You'd like them to just get on with it, but it often means that there's a problem with the script.

If you see a bad live action film, what are the conclusions you draw? Typically, it is that they made a bunch of mistakes, a bad script, wrong casting. You get into 2D, and you get a few films that are not strong films. And what is the conclusion? That it's 2D? I beg to differ. It's a convenient excuse, but it's just wrong.