Navya Nair Quotes

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.

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

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

Finding one good script is a huge challenge. So I do a film whose script comes and grabs me. Once I finish that, I look forward to the next movie.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.

I have tried to make decisions to work with great directors, with good scripts, and that makes the pickings real slim.

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made.

When there's a good script, everybody circles.

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

I am open to working with new directors as long as the script excites me.

When you get scripts and you really enjoy reading them, you know it's a good project.

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.

I am very happy to be working with so many talented directors and writers, who are penning scripts that are interesting for me.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

I read a lot of scripts, so I know by page 25 if I like it or not.

The thing is, I don't just take roles because they're performance capture.

I always choose my projects for the script or what the director want to tell with that story. And if I like the story.

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