George Clooney Quotes

When you start out as an actor, you read a script thinking of it at its best. But that's not usually the case in general, and usually what you have to do is you have to read a script and think of it at its worst. You read it going, "OK, how bad could this be?" first and foremost. You cannot make a good film out of a bad script. You can make a bad film out of a good script, but you can't make a good film out of a bad script.

It's possible for me to make a bad movie out of a good script, but I can't make a good movie from a bad script.

Picking projects, it's always director first and then script. Those two things are pretty much head-to-head.

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.

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 think that whenever there's a good script we try to make that happen, but it's all based off of a good story, a good script, but I don't believe you should do it just because it's African-American.

If you have a script that's not great, if you have a great director, you can make a great movie, but if you have a great script with a director who's not good, never are you going to have a good movie.

It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.

I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.

For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.

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

The only thing that works is a good script!

Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing.

With a good script a good director can produce a masterpiece; with the same script a mediocre director can make a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can’t possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. That is what makes a real movie. The script must be something that has the power to do this.

It so depends on each script, because you can say... I always thought I wouldn't have wanted to do something that was kind of like as big and commercial as 'The Dark is Rising,' but I really liked the script. I thought it was really clever.

Most of the scripts that land on my desk are stuff you read and go, 'Is someone really gonna make this?'

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.

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

Stupidly, in our industry, producers pay precious money to sign stars whom they might not even use in the film. Producers believe stars make hits; actually it is the script that makes a film successful.

When you get a good script, and the director gives you proper lines, half your job is done.

If you do not have a good script, then no matter what the genre is, the film will not be a success.

What I really plan to do is take the best scripts I get and consider them seriously. I can actually work as an actor and prepare a film as a director.

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

When you get scripts and you really enjoy reading them, you know it's a good project.

Nobody sets out to make a bad film.