Javier Bardem Quotes

I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the director is the storyteller, what the movie is all about. I don't want to participate in something that I don't think is constructive storytelling.

I don't care about names attached to the script. That doesn't matter to me. All things being equal, I would like to work with a good script with a good director, and the part I play is of less important than those two factors.

I think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good story, a good script, but I don't believe you should do it just because it's African-American.

If I had to choose criteria, for me, it's about first the director. I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging. After the director it's the character and the story. That's the deal for me.

I've worked with some really great directors, and I'm really choosy about them because they're telling the story at the end of the day.

Whether it's TV shows or the films that I've done, it's always a priority for me that the entire script should be good.

I'll do any kind of movie, as long as it's a good version of it.

When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.

There's never been a mathematical equation that says a good experience making a movie equates to a good movie, or a bad experience on a set is going to lead to a bad movie.

And I just want to work with good directors and good people.

Of course I want my films to look really good, but every single element is chosen for a reason. It's telling something in the story.

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.

The only thing that gets me back to directing is good scripts.

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.

Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked.

There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

For me, it's always about what's on the page. I have tremendous respect for writing. When you recognize good writing, and you're lucky enough to get it, like with 'Lost,' that's what I follow.

I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.

The thing about working with Peter Jackson is that, at the end of the day, he is a passionate artist.

My goal isn't so much genre, or fact-based or not fact-based. I just want to work on projects that I think could be great.

I think what makes a good actor's director is the same thing that makes a good director. Acting is just one of the trades necessary to make a movie.

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.

Of course you want to be good and you want to do the best you can, but I am inspired by great writing. If there's something about the script, that's what I go for, although I know that that doesn't always translate because sometimes it's about the vision of the director.

Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.

I believe that there's good content or bad content. You see interviews when somebody interviews a director of a movie that didn't perform well in the box office, and he says, 'The audience didn't understand my movie.' If people didn't go to buy the ticket, then you did the wrong movie.