Rupert Sanders Quotes

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

I get so many scripts a day but none of them inspires me. If I get a good inspiring script, then I will be most happy to make it into a film.

I have a lot of incomplete short films and incomplete scripts out there.

I read as many scripts as I can and just find stuff that I think is interesting, find stories that I think are worth telling.

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.

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

I look for scripts that give me a gut feeling that this is going to work.

Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story.

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

Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers.

I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.

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.

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 think I've had pretty good experiences for the most part with the people who have directed my screenplays.

Directing is something I've sort of always felt like I'd like to do at one point, and I thought the best way to start it is to write something myself or with someone and I'd go from there. My own material.

I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways.

I don't have a stack of scripts that, when I get home, studios are clamoring, saying, 'Has Bob read ours yet?'

Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.

I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

When I was in New York, a lot of my friends were studying filmmaking and would bring their scripts to me, as I was a good script doctor. I would read their scripts and make corrections to them for $20 per script and was fascinated by films.

India needs better producers than screenwriters. No producer wants to invest in out-of-the way scripts.

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.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

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