Kenneth Edmonds Quotes

You can have a million dollar, 20 million dollar budget or 60 million dollar budget, and if you don't have a good script, it doesn't mean a thing.

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.

There's no such thing as easy, but it's easier when a script is good.

If I get lucky and I can choose, I would always choose a really good story and screenplay, even if I don't know the director. If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen.

A horrible script 99 percent of the time means a horrible movie. But if you start with a good script, odds are you're going to have a good movie.

I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.

I accept offers only when people approach me with a good script, and all those experiences have been great.

Finding one good script is a huge challenge. So I do a film whose script comes and grabs me. Once I finish that, I look forward to the next movie.

Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.

I look for the character to be something interesting, the script to have a good story and be original, and a director that I admire.

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.

It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more.

I'm a filmmaker; I want to make films. I don't want to sit in a hotel room waiting to make films, and I can control my thing in Denmark; I can make the film I want to make... of course, I have to write a good script, all that, but if I do my job, it will happen.

Good scripts are hard to find.

It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there.

As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.

I will work with a director who has good material because at the end of the day, that's what counts.

I love to be creative and to put flesh onto the ideas that are inside of me. And there are not that many great programs that are coming out through Hollywood, and I'm tired of waiting around for someone to hand me a good script, so I'm going to go and produce something.

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

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

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

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

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

It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made.