Jason Statham Quotes

I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.

The script for 'Thirteen' is tight, and not because of the now-famous six day writing spree, but more because it started out as 15 pages longer.

The hardest single thing you do is get the bloody screenplay right.

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

Films are a long process and the script is the first part.

Writing a script consumes so much of time.

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

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.

I want to make my own films from my own scripts based on stories I want to tell, but they take time to put together.

There's nothing more important in making movies than the screenplay.

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

When I wrote 'Kidulthood,' I didn't even know there was going to be a 'Kidulthood.' I just wanted to test myself to see if I could write a script.

I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.

'The Full Monty' was my first feature script, and I wasn't that skilled at it.

When I'm writing a first draft of a script, I can disappear into that for two, three months exclusively.

You can't make a good movie with a bad script, no matter who's involved.

You never know where your next movie is going to come from. You just have to fall in love with something because it's going to be taking up every moment of spare time in your life for about two years. You're going to be dreaming about it and thinking about it and becoming obsessed with it.

Eventually, I would love to direct, but not anytime soon. I just love the storytelling aspect.

Writing a screenplay is an act of faith. First, that it's interesting enough that anyone would want to make it. Secondly, that anybody would want to watch it, let alone enjoy it.

I am not interested in doing a film on the basis of a good story. I want a proper screenplay.

My approach to making movies is different than other people, because I just write a lot of screenplays. I'm constantly writing screenplays.

I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together.

If there's a good screenplay, there's a chance that something good is going to happen. If you don't have a brilliant screenplay, then you either have amazing actors who give you the chance to improve whatever is on the page, or an interesting director who has enough faith in the project that they can carry it through and get it somewhere.

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

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