Jason Statham Quotes

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

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

It's very hard to get a movie made. You could spend your life reading scripts that never got made.

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

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.

You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.

My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

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.

When there's a good script, everybody circles.

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.

For all the hundreds of scripts that are out there, there's not that many that are amazing.

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

Good scripts are difficult to come by in the industry, especially if you are an outsider.

There aren't enough good scripts.

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.

The 'Pan' script made it to the Black List in 2013.

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.

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.

I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

India needs better producers than screenwriters. No producer wants to invest in out-of-the way scripts.

It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

I get offered movies probably twice a month and they are just generally bad.

'Hardware' came about because I had written quite a few scripts and hadn't had any luck getting them made.

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