Chris Tucker Quotes

I do get a fair amount of scripts; I got 'Frozen River' kinda just that way. I have a hard time turning my back on anybody who says they have something for me.

You would not believe some of the scripts I have seen. I have read something like 160 that I've rejected, and I keep them all, for posterity.

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.

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.

My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.

I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.

Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all.

Sometimes you just dread reading scripts; it's like the chef who doesn't want to cook at home.

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 read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.

I look forward to every script that comes down the pike.

I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of the pack. I remember thinking, 'Wow, that is really good. I would love to be a part of that.'

I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.

The Lord Chamberlin was censoring scripts when I first came into the theater.

I don't have a stack of scripts that, when I get home, studios are clamoring, saying, 'Has Bob read ours yet?'

I read every screenplay that was being sent to the other directors. None were being sent to me, but I was reading what others were choosing and what the best writers were writing.

You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.

A lot of the time the film chooses me. I'll be working and I'll get a call from my agent and I'll get the script and then tell him what I think.

I'm still fighting for parts - it's not like I'm sitting with a big pile of scripts putting them in a 'yes' and 'no' pile.

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

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

I'll read, like, ten scripts, and then sometimes if I'm lucky, there will be two or three scripts that I like, and sometimes they'll all be dramas, or they'll all be comedies, or there will be two dramas and a comedy, and then I'll go for whatever. If I have to audition, I'll audition. If it's an offer, great.