Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It's like falling in love. You can't give a reason why.
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When you read a script, you get a feeling from it.
I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
When I read a script, I try not to judge the characters. I try to have an open mind and really see what it makes me feel.
Every script has things that would draw me away or draw me towards it. But I just try and choose as wisely as possible - when I get to choose.
I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character.
We have the script, we have the actors, and we're trying to figure out what this is, and you don't know what it is. You have to be open to what it's going to become rather than have this thing that you're trying to get to, which is boring.
I am very instinctive when it comes to a script.
I'm just a sucker for a good script.
The first thing, when I read the script, is that I need to care about what happens and feel compelled by the story and engaged by the characters. It needs to resonate with me, even if what the characters are going through is not something that I have experienced in my life. I have to feel like it has some sort of meaning to me.
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.