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I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick with it. You have to.

I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.

When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.

The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything. And if you don't connect to that foundation, if you don't believe in that and feel that you wanna spend three, four months of your life exploring it, then all of the other elements are secondary.

The script is very good because the things that happen in it are very believable to me. It doesn't presuppose that the world has changed very much. You don't have to think that you're in a different world.

The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.

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.

If I ever wrote a script myself, it would be strongly emotional material.

Some people, especially literary people, they think, 'I'll write this original script, and it will be full of ideas. I'll submit it, and they'll hire me for television.' That's not the case.

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.