Greta Scacchi Quotes

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

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

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

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.

I've got a big closet of scripts, and a big stack of scripts on the side of my desk, because you get a whole bunch. Nothing's going to be perfect, and I realize that; but I am a perfectionist, so you go through a lot of stuff.

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.

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.

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

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 have a lot of scripts that come my way, and some of them take a bit longer to read than others. There are a lot of things that I have to pass on because I'm just not into it, and sometimes the story is slightly forced.

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

I read a lot of scripts. Most of 'em go to other actors.

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

To have someone like Clint Eastwood come along and shoot your first draft as written is just any screenwriter's dream. And Clint is very straightforward. If it's good enough to get his attention, it's good enough to produce.

And no, having the hits is just more work.

I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.

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.

Any movie that gets made and ends up in a position where people are coming to talk about it, it's not a small thing.

I was always known in my industry, and I always enjoyed a modicum of popularity.

Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.

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.

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.