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It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.

You don't read many scripts, especially for crime dramas, that feature a strong woman as the central character.

It's a weird thing when you spend your life trying to find these great scripts and great parts. You are reading scripts, you are traveling the world, you are hassling your agent. You are trying to find that script.

I read a lot of script. In my opinion, most of them aren't good or aren't about people.

American scripts are usually non-stop conversation. People talking over each other. I like that.

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.

I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.'

I think that it's fun to get the script and open it like a Christmas present. That's 'Alcatraz' or anything that I'm working on. If the groundwork has been laid too much, the surprises aren't there.