Victoria Pratt Quotes

Good scripts have always been, I think, hard to find. Good storytelling, good writing - it's just not easy. I have made it a point that - if I'm going to put the energy into doing this work - I will wait until I find something I'm really happy with.

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

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.

There aren't enough good scripts.

It's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

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

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.

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.

I read a lot of script. In my opinion, most of them aren't good or aren't about people.

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

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

For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.

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

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.

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.

I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good.

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

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.

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

The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room.

I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.

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

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.

These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.