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For me, the script is important. If it excites me, I'll do the film.

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

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.

I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths.

It's never a script that makes me decide to accept a film or not.

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.

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.