For me, if the words are good on the page, the rest of it comes from spending some time with the script, and not like you're learning lines but absorbing what the script has to offer.
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A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic behind the words. I have to be with the script for quite a long time before things start to fall into place, before they become part of the character.
With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that.
What's on the page dictates a lot of what I do. When the words are there, it's easy.
You make a decision whether you just work on the script and believe in every moment and pick out every moment, or if you sit down and memorize lines. Once you really dig into a script, learning lines becomes almost second nature.
Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.
They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.
It's important to read as much as you can because you never know when you will find the best script that you want to do next. I'm always quite picky in what I read and what I go for.
Sometimes reading scripts is terrible.
When I approach any script, I always try to find what I would relate to most in it.
As a writer, putting words on the page is how I pay attention.