Ajay Devgn Quotes

I've read a hundred fantastic scripts that didn't pan out as films, and I completely put that on the directors. I've also read some mediocre scripts that have ended up being amazing, and I credit that to the directors. They're the storytellers. If you don't have a good storyteller, you really have nothing.

There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

My family believes in a good script and ultimately everything that is attached to it. I am more interested in a hit film than a good film.

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

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved because the movie is almost always bad when you do that.

I don't have a drawer full of ideas. I kind of look around and take notes and wonder what could actually be a whole movie. And each time, I think I'm going to do it more commercial this time; I'm going to get a big budget and make it. But I always come up with some small idea.

You can have an amazing director and terrible script, and the film's not going to be great. But if you have the most incredible script and an okay director, you could still get a really good film.

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

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 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.

I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good story, a good script, but I don't believe you should do it just because it's African-American.

I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.

A good script and perfect casting, that's 90 percent of the work.

I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.

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.

You can have a million dollar, 20 million dollar budget or 60 million dollar budget, and if you don't have a good script, it doesn't mean a thing.

I'm working on a few different films and I'm just searching for the right new story to tell. As a director, you just have to kind of like just get through the first project before starting on the next one.

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.

I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.

I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste of time. You've got too many people who think they have the answer to a good screenplay and they don't. No one knows.

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

I originally went to school to be a filmmaker. And so it's a big part of how I think and how I write. And it inspires me a lot.

Good scripts have always been, I think, hard to find. Good storytelling, good writing - it's just not easy. I have made it a point that - if I'm going to put the energy into doing this work - I will wait until I find something I'm really happy with.