Felicity Jones Quotes

When you first read a script is the purest moment. That's when you can understand how an audience will ultimately receive it. The first reading of the script is so important because you're experiencing it all for the first time, and it's then that you really know if it's going to work or not.

Normally, when I read a script, I read 30 pages, and then go have a cup of tea and come back. And then, I read 20 pages and go make a phone call, and then go back to it.

I ensure that I read the entire script of each project that comes my way. In fact, it is the script alone that evokes my interest in any film.

When I get a script, it's the only time that I get to be an audience member with the first-time experience of that movie. That's the first and only time.

I'm a reader. I found out that, whether you're a studio head or a director, you must read your own material. You can't rely on readers.

Some people say that they read the first 20 pages, and then decide if they want to do the film or not. But, I have to read the entire thing 'cause anything can change in a script.

I do think the first time you read a script, that gut response is very important, and that probably plants a seed that continues to blossom throughout the whole experience.

You'll read a script, and it'll grab me, or it won't.

I'd get scripts and think: 'What's the point of this?'

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

Sometimes reading scripts is terrible.

I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.

Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.

The only time you actually are a spectator of your own work is the day you read the script.

I find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that's been gone over, you can tell, like rings on a tree, by how bad it is, how long it's been in development.

It's not like I have boxes of scripts arriving at my door.

I don't read that many books - I tend to read scripts for projects.

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

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

For me, my first hearing of the script matters. It has to excite me as an actor and as an audience.

For me it's a very organic process. I read the script/hear a narration and pretty much know instantly if it's something I want to be a part of or not. It's really as simple as that.

I've got a big closet of scripts, and a big stack of scripts on the side of my desk, because you get a whole bunch. Nothing's going to be perfect, and I realize that; but I am a perfectionist, so you go through a lot of stuff.

I have a tendency to say yes to a script or no to a script. Not yes based on a rewrite.