Caitlin Fitzgerald Quotes

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

Some of the material out there - I don't want to say that it's all bad - but there's a lot of bad stuff out there. You just continue reading scripts, and eventually you find something you connect with.

I think a good script is a rare thing, and I think no matter who you are you have to fight for the good ones.

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.

For all the hundreds of scripts that are out there, there's not that many that are amazing.

I've received some English-speaking scripts, but I was not interested in them.

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

My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.

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

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.

I have a lot of scripts that come my way, and some of them take a bit longer to read than others. There are a lot of things that I have to pass on because I'm just not into it, and sometimes the story is slightly forced.

Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.

I read a lot of scripts, so I know by page 25 if I like it or not.

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

I read a lot of scripts that I just don't find very funny.

When you first read a script is the purest moment. That's when you can understand how an audience will ultimately receive it. The first reading of the script is so important because you're experiencing it all for the first time, and it's then that you really know if it's going to work or not.

I'd read a lot of scripts, and I remember reading 'Orange Is the New Black,' and it was at the head of the pack. I remember thinking, 'Wow, that is really good. I would love to be a part of that.'

I have a stack of scripts that I've read - I'm in the lucky position where I get offered things - but I haven't wanted to direct many of them.

I find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that's been gone over, you can tell, like rings on a tree, by how bad it is, how long it's been in development.

A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?

I am very selective when it comes to scripts.

Whenever I hear the narration for a new film, I have this process back home where my mother reads all my scripts.

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

I accept offers only when people approach me with a good script, and all those experiences have been great.