Shane West Quotes

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

If you do not have a good script, then no matter what the genre is, the film will not be a success.

In order to have a TV series, you have to have a good idea for the story.

Since I was a child, I've liked telling stories. Maybe because my father's a director, I grew up loving stories. I'm not good at spinning them at a dinner table because I do go on a bit, but I love writing them, and directing is just a way of editing the story.

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

It's very different when you're reading a script to when you're watching a movie for the first time.

You can't make a good movie with a bad script, no matter who's involved.

'Basha' is the best screenplay in my career.

If the script is not good, the film will not work.

In 'Dear Father,' you will see some remarkable work in terms of the screenplay.

With any movie at all the challenge lies in the storytelling.

A film only works when its content works. The visuals can be breathtaking, but if the content is not good, it won't work.

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.

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

Directing is not on my agenda, but writing is. I want to write everything from action, superhero films to quiet dramas, smaller films.

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time.

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.

It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.

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'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.

I'd love to be able to do a really good English movie.