Saqib Saleem Quotes

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

By the time I wrote 'Any Given Sunday' or 'Bats,' I sort of knew what my job was in terms of what a writer of dialogue does.

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

I feel I do not have script sense. Like Kartik Aaryan has a very good script sense.

A good script makes our job a lot easier.

Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good.

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

It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.

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.

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

I'm just a sucker for a good script.

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

Somebody wrote a script around us, but Dustin Abraham came with the best one.

My experience is, I do a table reading, and it's literally like it's written in colossal neon lights what's wrong with the screenplay.

I'm really calculating when it comes to these scripts - I'm really calculated about character behavior and dialogue.

I am on the lookout for smart scripts and stories where my role has weightage.

I am only looking forward to good film script. It doesn't matter if the role is a supporting or a standalone role.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

What I look for in a script is the plot point and whether they're strong, obviously, or not, whether the characters are rich or not, and if I can do justice to the character or not. Some movies you look at and the script is so bad that no one can do anything with the script.

Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.

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 TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end.

We start with strong characters and build the movie from there. That not to say we don't struggle with story - that's the most challenging part.

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.

Lizzy Weiss is such a great writer, and she really writes for the performances.