Demian Bichir Quotes

I'm a big believer that the script is your bible.

It makes a world of difference when you start with an amazing script.

There are a lot of good stories out there, but I haven't found too many great scripts.

I just want to work on good scripts.

There aren't enough good scripts.

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

I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of something.

At the end of the day you do have to write a short novel beforehand, called a script, before you can make a movie.

[Noah Hawley] just a fantastic writer. It's always about the script, it's always about the book; it always is. If it ain't on the page, it ain't on the stage. That's what attracted me to him first and foremost.

Scripts are what matter... if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don’t stand a shot.

The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script.

Every film starts with the script.

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

I structure the scripts and work on them on films and work on scenes with writers and but I haven't written a script myself, I really respect what they do and I'm fortunate I get to work with people that I really enjoy working with and we all kind of spitball and work together on these things, but I haven't written a script yet.

I sort of love reading the scripts and going, 'Oh wow, what a great idea. I never would have thought of that.'

I look forward to every script that comes down the pike.

It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more.

We don't feel pressure of, 'Let's make this really raunchy.' It's more about making a good story, which is 10 times harder. The raunchy stuff's really easy for us.

I always write the script by myself.

My husband and I are writers, and I wish I could write faster. There are not a lot of movies made with black actors in mind.

I read a lot of bad scripts and weird television shows. I don't know. There's a lot of work out there I was reading at 14 years old and noticing this lack of thought. And then, reading 'Afterschool,' that's full of thought. It was bursting with ideas.

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.

You're always looking for good scripts and when they're not always forthcoming you go mad.

Since I've had some success, story and character are always the two elements I think about first in material presented to me. Some of my choices have been more successful than others.