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You can have an amazing director and terrible script, and the film's not going to be great. But if you have the most incredible script and an okay director, you could still get a really good film.

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.

A good project but a poor director will always make a mediocre film, but an average script and good director can make a good film, as he will put in everything to make the film look good.

You can have a great character in a really bad script, and the film will never be seen. It's just too much work to commit to a film and not have it released.

A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are you're going to have a good movie.

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker.

If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen. If you don't have a brilliant screenplay, then you either have amazing actors who give you the chance to improve whatever is on the page, or an interesting director who has enough faith in the project that they can carry it through and get it somewhere.

For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.