Luke Pasqualino Quotes

I ensure that I read the entire script of each project that comes my way. In fact, it is the script alone that evokes my interest in any film.

It always starts with a script. I like to have plenty of time to read something, and I always like to read a paper copy. I hate reading it on email. I sit down with a script, and want to see how it hits me. It's an instinctive process.

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

I'd get scripts and think: 'What's the point of this?'

When you first read a script is the purest moment. That's when you can understand how an audience will ultimately receive it. The first reading of the script is so important because you're experiencing it all for the first time, and it's then that you really know if it's going to work or not.

Sometimes reading scripts is terrible.

I'm terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts.

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.

Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

Some people say that they read the first 20 pages, and then decide if they want to do the film or not. But, I have to read the entire thing 'cause anything can change in a script.

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

I read a lot of scripts, so I know by page 25 if I like it or not.

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.

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.

My dad reads the scripts and passes them on to me.

If I feel like it's a well-written script and if it speaks to me, it's something I want to do. I usually rely on my instincts when it comes to a script.

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

When I get a script, it's the only time that I get to be an audience member with the first-time experience of that movie. That's the first and only time.

I think first impressions are important when you pick up a script.

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

If there's something really, really bothering me about a script, then I'll say something, but otherwise I find my answers in the script.

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.

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

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