Marc Forster Quotes

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.

The elegance of a really good screenplay, I admire it. I can't do it.

I'm just a sucker for a good script.

I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face.

A good script makes our job a lot easier.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

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

I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.

Good scripts are hard to find.

I'm just after the best script I can get.

A good script is like a work of art in itself. I've read hundreds of scripts, and good ones are very rare. If the writer has something to say, and a voice, and a plot that matches character, and an emotional trajectory that works, then I'd be an idiot to fool around with it. It's just that few scripts ever are like that.

Yeah, I'd love to write a film, that'd be great.

A good script can come from anywhere.

How can you turn down Marks and Gran? Their scripts are so rich in texture.

Every actor just wants good writing.

'King of California' was just, I thought, a really great, fresh, original kind of script. I loved the tone, the mix of tragedy, comedy, and drama, and that it was a good part.

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

I think the script is the key. Regardless of how great everybody else is working on a film, if you're working on a script that you don't think is great, you're not gonna be able to make a great film. Whereas if the script is great, then you can.

I'm a sort of boy next door. If that boy has a good scriptwriter.

Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue.

The few times I've tried to write original screenplays, it's a difficult process because I just don't feel like I know the characters the way I know them after the year or two it takes to write a novel.

I didn't write 'Snow White' for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.