Mya Quotes

My choice of script is governed by two factors - either I've to like the people associated with the project or the storyline should be interesting. I focus more on the vibe and the type of energy I get from them.

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

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.

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

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've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

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

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.

I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.

Every script has things that would draw me away or draw me towards it. But I just try and choose as wisely as possible - when I get to choose.

Sometimes reading scripts is terrible.

You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.

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.

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

Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.

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

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

I am very selective when it comes to scripts.

I ensure that I read the entire script of each project that comes my way. In fact, it is the script alone that evokes my interest in any film.

The only thing that we as actors really can control is to be able to say 'yes' or 'no' to the material.

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 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'm terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts.