Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.
You can't fix a bad script after you start shooting. The problems on the page only get bigger as they move to the big screen.
The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room.
I have scripts that I've only shown to animals... and they passed on them.
Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them.
I learn the whole script before I show up.
Writing a screenplay needs to be more than words on a page - and by the way, I think the words on the page are something you have to try to execute on the highest level you can; I'm not dismissing that by any regard.
What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.
Scripts don't get movies made.
When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.