Douglas Booth Quotes

I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success.

There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.

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.

I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.

More often than not, if you've got a good director and a good script you can't really go wrong.

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.

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

It's usually the exact same three things which are, the Scripts, the Director and the Role those are the three things I look for and really any two of them, If I get two of them that's usually enough, but definitely those are the things I look for.

One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.

And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a director, a friend, as somebody's there that's very anxious to get the movie made.

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

You can have an amazing director and terrible script, and the film's not going to be great. But if you have the most incredible script and an okay director, you could still get a really good film.

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.

I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

There are no great scripts - just great films.

There is no sense in doing a wonderful script with somebody who can't direct because that is a disaster.

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.

The type of producing that I did for many years involved working very closely with directors.

For a movie - any movie - to work, all the bread has to fall jelly side up; everything has to go right. You have to hit the zeitgeist.

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

I like to just work with great directors.

It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts.

Every film is a crapshoot. It's a mystery when a movie comes together. I've never been able to figure it out. I don't know how I make my choices. The only thing you can do is know there's something about a character that you really want to experience.

You never know in a movie if it's going to be a sequel, but right now I'm proud of what we produced.

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.