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It's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

I read as many scripts as I can and just find stuff that I think is interesting, find stories that I think are worth telling.

A good script is like a work of art in itself. I've read hundreds of scripts, and good ones are very rare. If the writer has something to say, and a voice, and a plot that matches character, and an emotional trajectory that works, then I'd be an idiot to fool around with it. It's just that few scripts ever are like that.

If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.

Most of the scripts that land on my desk are stuff you read and go, 'Is someone really gonna make this?'

Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.

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.