Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.
Everything you look at now, the scripts that come in that you look at, the television scripts are way better than the movie script. The talent is going to television.
I've never seen or heard of a mob sitting down to read a film script.
While we're working on the script, I never see any films. I make it a point because I don't want to get distracted. I don't want to be influenced, and before I know it, have somebody say, "My God, she plagiarized that line."
I have always believed that chemistry can't be created between two people. You either have it or you don't. The script can only enhance it.
There is no script. Live your life. Soak it all in.
I thought it was amazing to work with authors, to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.
My scripts are possibly too talkative. Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, 'Oh, for God's sake, shut up.'
My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
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.