Denzel Washington Quotes

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

I tend to look for a great script.

I'm sure great scripts are hard to find, but I'm definitely open, and waiting to see what comes my way.

I don't know, just scripts randomly appeal to me. I'm not looking specifically at any genre.

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

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.

Each book will have a lot of cliffhangers, because I like that.

You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.

Sometimes reading scripts is terrible.

I was Paul Schrader's assistant for six months before I went to film school, and he's very much about knowing what's going to happen on every page before you even start writing dialogue - the entire plot and character arcs are mapped out.

As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next.

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

I find that with every script I get, I go, 'Who knew this? This is so cool!'

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.

All modesty aside, I think I'm good at reading scripts. The way I read a script is as fast as I can, all in one sitting, and I don't read many of the stage directions. I only read enough stage directions to let me know where I am, because they're always so verbose and mostly horseshit. So I only read the dialogue, which allows me to see the movie in my mind's eye in real time.

I find reading screenplays difficult, as they're only a roadmap for what a movie might end up being.

It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

What's important on a comedy show, or any show, is that some stories have to go somewhere. There have to be ends to the beginnings and middles you create. But sometimes it's like a way station on the highway, then the actual thing doesn't have to be this giant, climactic, life-changing, game-changing thing.

Normally, when I read a script, it takes me two and a half hours. I usually put it down and come back to it. So, I know if I can read a script in one sitting, it's a fantastic script.

I read a lot of scripts. I believe you've got to read one that you know you're not going to do, because you've got to educate yourself on what's out there to make the best decision for you.

The script is your map of the world, isn't it? And if someone knows that if it's well-written, you get all of the beats, it will tell you everything you need to know.

As an actor, you're always reading scripts looking for something good.

One reads many scripts, and some of them are good and some of them are not, but every now and then, one really grabs you. You simply can't put it down.

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

A script is a very rough material in a way. Whatever questions you might have regarding the script, you might find the beginning of the answers in the book.