Rasika Dugal Quotes

Good scripts are hard to find.

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

If you have a great script and great dialogue, you don't need to improvise.

I just want to work on good scripts.

I feel like I work on scripts for comedy as well as dramatic stuff the same.

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

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.

I don't have a stack of scripts.

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

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.

I think sketch writing is a good spot for everyone to start because it requires you to develop characters, have a beginning, middle and end and have a bunch of jokes in a short amount of time.

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

I wrote for 'The Sopranos' and worked on big, blustery characters for quite a while.

I like scripts. I spend a lot of time writing them.

Writing a script is hard, I've discovered.

I consider myself a good screenwriter.

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.

I have tried many times to write a TV sitcom - with little success.

Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.

I'm teaching myself how to screenplay write.

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

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

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

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.