The script is just a blueprint.
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A script can just be a blueprint, and you've got to go in and build it and color it in and paint it.
I guess, as a director, you sort of take the script, and you find ways to interpret it.
These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.
I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.
I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.
I'm not used to a script.
The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.
What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.
A script is like a theory of a movie.
A script is a unique literary form, because it's not the end product; it's a blueprint. If you're not thinking of that end product, there's going to be a disconnect.