Once you've agreed the script, you must be willing to go as far as it needs to go on set.
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Usually, if you've got a great script, everything falls into place.
If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.
These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.
I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick with it. You have to.
I read the script. If I like it, I would do anything I am asked to.
If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part.
Being on set is difficult for the writer. Your job is done, and you have to step back and hand it over to the director.
I'm the only one responsible for the choices I make and the opportunities I get. When you read the script, you don't know how it's going to shape up. You just know what you've been narrated.
Hopefully, as I get older in the business, I make my choices more accurately, and I perhaps know from either the script or the first meeting that it isn't going to work.
The key is, if you're not monkeying around with the script, then everything usually goes pretty well.