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There are no great scripts - just great films.

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

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.

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

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.

It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there.

The script for 'Thirteen' is tight, and not because of the now-famous six day writing spree, but more because it started out as 15 pages longer.

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

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

Usually, if you've got a great script, everything falls into place.

To me, the most important thing is the script. I would never make a movie that I didn't write. I wouldn't know how to.

If I can't finish a screenplay, if I can't get to the last page as a writer, it probably means it's not a good movie for me to make.

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

I know 'Dabangg' has some pre-requisites. Every film has some requisites that you have to fulfill. I sat down with my writer and discussed what as an audience I want to see in the second part of the film. We worked towards that and we hope what we thought connects with the audience.

The movies sort of tell you what they want to be as you're writing them.

I've done a lot of ad films where an idea can be translated in 30 or 40 seconds. But in a movie, an idea needs to be stretched for two hours, and requires you to draw a bit from your experiences in life.

Every film starts with the script.

There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.

As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

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.

Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end.

What you do is get the right director and the right screenwriter and the right cast. It's a fantastic job.

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

We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's the most challenging part.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.