You can throw away your script more easily than you can throw away your film.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not accustomed to doing films without seeing the script.
I think the script is the key. Regardless of how great everybody else is working on a film, if you're working on a script that you don't think is great, you're not gonna be able to make a great film. Whereas if the script is great, then you can.
It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not.
We all write, but the script is a blueprint. We can lose whole scenes when we're shooting.
I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths.
With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.
You do small movies because the script is good and because you believe in the director. You don't care about the money. And when they disappear, it's a pity.
No other aspect of filmmaking has tempted me to do a film other than the script and the story itself.
I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.
For me, the script is important. If it excites me, I'll do the film.