Jason Blum Quotes

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.

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.

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

I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.

When you get scripts and you really enjoy reading them, you know it's a good project.

There aren't enough good scripts.

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.

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

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

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

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

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

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

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.

If my film fails, I never think it was because the script was weak.

It takes a year for us to generate a script that is ready to shoot. There are maybe 20 drafts of a script. And, each time, someone saying 'I don't really love this,' we discuss it for 15 minutes.

It seems so cliched and obvious, but write the movie you want to see in the theater.

I started out working as a script editor and storyliner.

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

A dream of mine is to become an executive producer and writer. I would love if that ended up happening to me in the future.

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

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

Every film has to be the next something else; originality isn't celebrated because you can't market it.