Ted McGinley Quotes

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

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

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

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

The only thing that works is a good script!

Please, if you're making a movie, start out with a good script, at least! Please!

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.

A lot of times, the script is the thing they care about least.

I tend to look for a great script.

I'm sure great scripts are hard to find, but I'm definitely open, and waiting to see what comes my way.

In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings.

The most important thing is the script.

Scripts are kind of a bare bones type of reading material.

Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a shot... but if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don't stand a shot. It's very rare-almost never-that a good film gets made from a bad screenplay.

My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel...

When you have great scripts, everything is very easy and fun.

I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success.

Every time I get a script in my inbox, it's like a little Christmas present. It's so exciting to see what they've cooked up.

It's usually the exact same three things which are, the Scripts, the Director and the Role those are the three things I look for and really any two of them, If I get two of them that's usually enough, but definitely those are the things I look for.

A novel is utterly your own creation, a very private process. I think of a novel as a noun and a screenplay as a verb. In a novel, very little needs to happen; you can explore a person's memories and thoughts and fantasies. In a screenplay, it's all action; you must push the story on.

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.

A good script and perfect casting, that's 90 percent of the work.

I can't really write anything without knowing the ending. I don't know how people do that. Even with my superhero stuff, I have to know at least where I want to take the characters and what the ending of my story with them will be. I just can't structure stories or character arcs and stuff without knowing the endpoint.