Justin Theroux Quotes

The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.

I just want to work on good scripts.

I think the script is the key. Regardless of how great everybody else is working on a film, if you're working on a script that you don't think is great, you're not gonna be able to make a great film. Whereas if the script is great, then you can.

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

Good scripts are hard to find.

I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the filmmaker to pick from.

The script for 'Thirteen' is tight, and not because of the now-famous six day writing spree, but more because it started out as 15 pages longer.

My preference is for good writing. It doesn't matter if it's for film or TV. Whatever. It starts with the writing. Even though I've had problems with writers, it doesn't matter how great of an actor you are. If the writing is bad, you're going to struggle.

Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one.

Writing a screenplay is an act of faith. First, that it's interesting enough that anyone would want to make it. Secondly, that anybody would want to watch it, let alone enjoy it.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the way I know them after the year or two it takes to write a novel.

I get a script and 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.

I always write the script by myself.

Good scripts and interesting stories are hard enough to find.

You're torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that's really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are you going to communicate it to people who really don't understand the process?

You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of.

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.

When I wrote 'Kidulthood,' I didn't even know there was going to be a 'Kidulthood.' I just wanted to test myself to see if I could write a script.

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.

If you have a great script and great dialogue, you don't need to improvise.

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

Siva is one of the best writers in the industry, and 'Srimanthudu' is a great script.

Usually, if you've got a great script, everything falls into place.

You can't make a good movie with a bad script, no matter who's involved.