Good Quotes

I think a good script is a rare thing, and I think no matter who you are you have to fight for the good ones.

I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.

With a terrible script you hustle and try to make it better. But with a good script it can be trouble because you rest on your laurels, so to speak, you think it's going to translate easily.

If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.

Well, there's no question that a good script is an absolutely essential, maybe the essential thing for a movie.

At the same time, reading an action script... It makes me wonder. Was The Matrix a good script? I don't know.

As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

I don't want this big stardom thing. I just want a good script.

Good scripts are hard to find.

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.

I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really.

So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts.

Hmm, limelight... No, I'm not Sienna Miller or Angelina Jolie. I'm very lucky and happy, but I still find it very difficult to get good scripts and good roles. It's really a jungle out there.

You're always looking for good scripts and when they're not always forthcoming you go mad.

I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along.

I think when you're a bigger star you get many good scripts sent to you, and you have to choose which one you're going to gravitate toward, but I just try to gravitate toward the best-written one that's been thrown my way after a lot of girls have passed on it.

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?

We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere.

Good schools underpin not only our economy, but the social fabric of our lives.

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'

I don't think we have very good records about what they were thinking except, as I pointed out earlier today, that they did invent our political system.

I think you'll do as well as most professionals. Most professionals don't beat the market. Let's not over-rate my industry. But if you have time, you can be in good mutual funds that have good records.