My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.
As a rule it usually takes three or four readings for me to be interested in a script, and if I'm interested I'll read it three or four times before I make a strong decision.
Sometimes you're reading something, and you don't know it will be important in your life. You're reading this script, and you start to get involved. It's not an intellectual experience.
I read the script. If I like it, I would do anything I am asked to.
I very rarely read a script that I don't feel I want to change a lot.
If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.
If there's something really, really bothering me about a script, then I'll say something, but otherwise I find my answers in the script.
If I'm not afraid when I'm reading a script, that means I know I've done it before. If I read something and think, Wow, I can't play this part, then I want to play it more.
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.