When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.
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I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should.
A good script is like a work of art in itself. I've read hundreds of scripts, and good ones are very rare. If the writer has something to say, and a voice, and a plot that matches character, and an emotional trajectory that works, then I'd be an idiot to fool around with it. It's just that few scripts ever are like that.
I don't want to work just for the sake of working. Generally, if a good script comes in, I read it, and if it appeals to me, it appeals to me. And it doesn't have to be anything - it doesn't have to be the main character; it doesn't have to be a huge part.
Personally, I read a lot of scripts.
When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.
I don't very often read novels.
I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.
My key interest in choosing scripts is character-driven stories, because there are so many stories that sacrifice character for plot.
If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.
I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.
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