Lenny Kravitz Quotes

It makes a world of difference when you start with an amazing script.

It's not about Hollywood, it's always about a good script for me.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

[Noah Hawley] just a fantastic writer. It's always about the script, it's always about the book; it always is. If it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage. That's what attracted me to him first and foremost.

The script, I always believe, is the foundation of everything.

It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.

I'm a big believer that the script is your bible.

Scripts are what matter... if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don’t stand a shot.

Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a shot... but if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don't stand a shot. It's very rare-almost never-that a good film gets made from a bad screenplay.

When you have great scripts, everything is very easy and fun.

Every film starts with the script.

A lot of times, the script is the thing they care about least.

Every time I get a script in my inbox, it's like a little Christmas present. It's so exciting to see what they've cooked up.

I structure the scripts and work on them on films and work on scenes with writers and but I haven't written a script myself, I really respect what they do and I'm fortunate I get to work with people that I really enjoy working with and we all kind of spitball and work together on these things, but I haven't written a script yet.

I read a lot of bad scripts and weird television shows. I don't know. There's a lot of work out there I was reading at 14 years old and noticing this lack of thought. And then, reading 'Afterschool,' that's full of thought. It was bursting with ideas.

With screenplays and teleplays, they are mapped, really, in the blueprint of a finished product, which is something you're going to watch on a screen. But a book is an end to itself, really.

When you start a script you aim to hit a note you know you want to end in general.

The script - and a good one - tells you everything that you need to know.

The only thing that works is a good script!

I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of something.

Becoming an actor made me way more interested in plot.

I felt like 'Life' was a great show. It was really well-written.

It starts with the writer-it's a familiar dictum, but somehow it keeps getting forgotten along the way. No film-maker, irrespective of his electronic bag of tricks, can ever afford to forget his commitment to the written word.

Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material.

The script comes first. If that isn't good enough, you know it's gonna be a long ride.