Ben Cross Quotes

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.

Sometimes reading scripts is terrible.

I get a lot of emails of scripts and pilots, and they want me to give feedback, and sometimes I can't because it's so many.

When you first read a script is the purest moment. That's when you can understand how an audience will ultimately receive it. The first reading of the script is so important because you're experiencing it all for the first time, and it's then that you really know if it's going to work or not.

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

Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.

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.

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

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

Whenever I hear the narration for a new film, I have this process back home where my mother reads all my scripts.

I started out working as a script editor and storyliner.

Hundreds of people who've never written before send in 'Dr. Who' scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

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.

There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development.

I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.

I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.

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

I learned how to write television scripts the same way I have learned to do almost everything else in my entire life, which is by reading.

Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do, but we finally got a first draft. And we'll see whatever happens with that.

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

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

I can't even read a script. I've tried and it's painful to watch.

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

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.'

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