Avi Arad Quotes

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

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

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

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.

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

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

In a good script, it's really like a treasure map. You just focus on that, all the answers are pretty much in it.

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.

Reading a script is usually as exciting as reading a boilerplate legal document, so when you read one that makes you feel as if you're seeing the movie, you know it's something different.

My preference is for good writing. It doesn't matter if it's for film or TV. Whatever. It starts with the writing. Even though I've had problems with writers, it doesn't matter how great of an actor you are. If the writing is bad, you're going to struggle.

If you do not have a good script, then no matter what the genre is, the film will not be a success.

It always comes down to script and characters.

I'm sure great scripts are hard to find, but I'm definitely open, and waiting to see what comes my way.

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.

All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.

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

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.

The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script.

I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success.

It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.

If you get a bad script, then you start expending energy trying to make a silk purse of a sow's ear. When the script's as good as those on 'Game of Thrones,' say, I don't think there was a single occasion where any of us thought there was a bad scene.

If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.