Chris Cooper Quotes

It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with.

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

I read a lot of script. In my opinion, most of them aren't good or aren't about people.

For all the hundreds of scripts that are out there, there's not that many that are amazing.

There aren't enough good scripts.

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.

You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.

It's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.

When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.

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

If my film fails, I never think it was because the script was weak.

I just want to work on good scripts.

It takes a year for us to generate a script that is ready to shoot. There are maybe 20 drafts of a script. And, each time, someone saying 'I don't really love this,' we discuss it for 15 minutes.

Good scripts, which are apt for me, eventually come to me.

I started out working as a script editor and storyliner.

I didn't understand that TV writing wasn't writing; it was pitching.

We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene.

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

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.

Lots of shows are written completely in the writer's room. And I wouldn't say 'The Walking Dead' is that way. There are three levels to it. There's us in the room. The writers going off by themselves. And me working with the writers on a finished script.

But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending an author.

My easiest judgment for a script is 'do I want to keep reading it?'