Kajol Quotes

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

It's not about Hollywood, it's always about a good script for me.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.

I'm a big believer that the script is your bible.

It makes a world of difference when you start with an amazing script.

Every film starts with the script.

The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script.

There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.

Sometimes I find it tiresome to write actions and describe the scene in a very intricate way so that every crew member understands where we are going - that I can find a little bit long and tiresome. But dialogue is just all my life. There's no way I could ever be challenged, not challenged, but I'm always so happy to write dialogue.

If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.

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

Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.

I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.

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

'Fanboys' was the first real screenplay that I ever wrote that was an original story with my own characters.

There are many great writers out there and, actually, great scripts. The problem is - and this is what I've always felt, even when I got out of school and started reading scripts - the really smart, character-driven stuff tends to be smaller films, and they just don't get made.

With screenplays and teleplays, they are mapped, really, in the blueprint of a finished product, which is something you're going to watch on a screen. But a book is an end to itself, really.

I was trained in storytelling by Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, and Larry Hama. Doesn't make me a genius, and there really isn't anything fancy about the stage direction in my scripts.

If the script is not good, the film will not work.

The intensity of the story breaking on 'Vampire' has never been easy. Every week, you're starting with a blank board and trying to make a new movie. There's no formula; there's no franchise to hang your hat on.

It always comes down to script and characters.

I'm especially keen to work with good scriptwriters on stories we have developed.

You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with.

I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of something.