Eric McCormack Quotes

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

I can't imagine directing from someone else's script.

I look forward to every script that comes down the pike.

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

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'

I'd love to work on a script in collaboration.

If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.

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.

For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.'

I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already have a few scripts in my head.

Good scripts have always been, I think, hard to find. Good storytelling, good writing - it's just not easy. I have made it a point that - if I'm going to put the energy into doing this work - I will wait until I find something I'm really happy with.

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

I like having an idea, or hearing an idea, and getting it into a proper script.

I just want to work on good scripts.

Writing a script is hard, I've discovered.

There aren't enough good scripts.

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

Sometimes you just dread reading scripts; it's like the chef who doesn't want to cook at home.

I think of myself as a problem-solver. I want to go in and help the director and the writer to get the best they can out of the text they're working with.

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.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

When you're a screenwriter working on a film, you're not really even welcome on set, even if you know... When I wrote 'Elizabeth' and Shekhar Kapur was a friend of mine, but I wasn't really welcome on set, because the director is God and it's a very difficult position for a screenwriter who's put so much passion into that, into the writing.

'Safe' was a script that I read and flipped out for.

When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like the writers on the old 'Dick Van Dyke Show.' You'll write something and they'll just put it on TV. But what you quickly discover is that American network television is television by committee.

They've got this house style which is writer driven. I heard of one person who sent his script in, and Karen Berger said there weren't enough words in it. Put some more in.