Bob Newhart Quotes

Most of the scripts that land on my desk are stuff you read and go, 'Is someone really gonna make this?'

The 'Pan' script made it to the Black List in 2013.

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.

It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.

You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.

I do get a fair amount of scripts; I got 'Frozen River' kinda just that way. I have a hard time turning my back on anybody who says they have something for me.

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.

You would not believe some of the scripts I have seen. I have read something like 160 that I've rejected, and I keep them all, for posterity.

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.

Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all.

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

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

I wrote a script with my brother which ended up, somehow, on the Black List in 2008.

I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

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

I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.

I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.

I get offered movies probably twice a month and they are just generally bad.

I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.

Most scripts that get written in Hollywood don't go anywhere.

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

It's not like I have boxes of scripts arriving at my door.