Joe Pantoliano Quotes

I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla;' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it.

There's one great script that hit my desk that I didn't change at all, and that was True Romance.

I take time to write my script, if I have more scripts, I will make more movies.

For most directors, the scriptwriter is about as welcome on set as a member of the Taliban.

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.

I do get a fair amount of scripts; I got 'Frozen River' kinda just that way. I have a hard time turning my back on anybody who says they have something for me.

Sometimes reading scripts is terrible.

I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.

I wrote the script of Patton. I had this very bizarre opening where he stands up in front of an American flag and gives this speech. Ultimately, I was fired. When the script was done, they hired another writer and that script was forgotten.

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

I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.

When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.

You would not believe some of the scripts I have seen. I have read something like 160 that I've rejected, and I keep them all, for posterity.

During script narrations, if I feel the screenplay mood jumping abruptly, I tell the director, and they work on it.

If my film fails, I never think it was because the script was weak.

It takes a year for us to generate a script that is ready to shoot. There are maybe 20 drafts of a script. And, each time, someone saying 'I don't really love this,' we discuss it for 15 minutes.

If someone offered me a movie, I will take your script.

I wrote a script, and I gave it to a guy who reads scripts, and he read it, and he liked it, but he said he thinks I ought to re-write it. I said, "Fuck that - I'll just make a copy!"

I don't read that many books - I tend to read scripts for projects.

Part of what I love about producing is to get to work with writers.

I read a lot of script. In my opinion, most of them aren't good or aren't about people.

I opened the script to the 'The Wall,' and 15 minutes later I was done with it, and I loved the movie and wanted to be part of it.

Good scripts have always been, I think, hard to find. Good storytelling, good writing - it's just not easy. I have made it a point that - if I'm going to put the energy into doing this work - I will wait until I find something I'm really happy with.

It's much harder to act poorly written material. It's much harder to memorize poorly written material.

I find that with every script I get, I go, 'Who knew this? This is so cool!'