Rajkummar Rao Quotes

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

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

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

Oftentimes you read scripts, and you get to one and you think, 'OK, is this good, or is this just better than all the other ones that I have been reading?'

Sometimes I read a really good script, and I just know that it's not a good fit.

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

I am very selective when it comes to scripts.

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

The approach I take in selecting a script is based on what I fancy from the the scripts I'm offered.

I can now tell from the envelope whether or not it is a good script.

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.

Every script has things that would draw me away or draw me towards it. But I just try and choose as wisely as possible - when I get to choose.

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

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

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

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 am very instinctive. When I read a script, I think, 'Is this something I would want to watch?'

I look for scripts that give me a gut feeling that this is going to work.

I'm very picky when saying yes to a script. I take a very long time to decide myself because I spend a lot of time with this and so to take parts where I think I can take something from my life as well. It must be interesting for me.

I don't choose my directors, but I choose my scripts wisely.

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.

Usually when you get a script from actors, you don't have high expectations.

At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.

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