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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.

Script wise, the story of 'Eega' is universal. It's a simple story which everyone can understand.

So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life.

I think it's incumbent on actresses to bring something else to the part which isn't in the script.

I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon.

Often jobs are un-turndownable even before you read the script. You go, 'Well, I have to do that.'

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

I was out to have a good time and have some fun. It's a fun script and fun people are in the movie.

I think sequels should be earned and we won't do it unless the script is better than the first one.

When I got the script for Memento, I read it and I got killed off on page one and I fired my agent.

Dave Chappelle asked me to come do his show. I read the script, and I said, 'Has he lost his mind?'

I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.

I'd love to be involved in the process of adapting a book to a script, but that's simply not my job.

The approach I take in selecting a script is based on what I fancy from the the scripts I'm offered.

A script can just be a blueprint, and you've got to go in and build it and color it in and paint it.

If you just want ten songs to fit somebody else's script, then I'm not really the composer for that.

It's very different when you're reading a script to when you're watching a movie for the first time.

You read a script and its based on 'Reservoir Dogs' and 'Pulp Fiction', and it goes right in the bin.

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.

I'm a sucker for a funny script. And then, as soon as I don't wanna be, one comes along and grabs me.

I think that my script, if it gets used, would be great. But if it doesn't, I think it inspired them.

Dhobi Ghat' is the only script I actually completed and that I was convinced about wanting to direct.

Together with script writers Sid Green and Dick Hills, we worked on the comedy ideas for this series.

'Argo' was a great script from day one. I don't think we knew that it was going to be such a success.

If I could have written a script of how I wanted my career to be, I couldn't have done it any better.

I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script.

But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.

I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director.

I think it helps, as an actor, to never know when you're going to get that next script and you're done.

My task is to find the authenticity in the character. I tend to go with the script and tell that story.

Finally, when the money was high enough, the script suddenly revealed itself as being very clear to me.

'Liberace's a great film. It's a great piece of material. I have a great script and it's a great score.

Whereas with Sirk, everything is always filmed. No matter what the script, he's always a real director.

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

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

Triple tonguing? It was sort of invented. It wasn't in the script. It was something that I came up with.

Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.

But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect.

I get involved with projects based on three parameters - the script, the actors involved and the director.

I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.

Anyone can write. But comedy, you've got to do some writing. You get one comedy script to every 20 dramas.

Are Christians too stupid that we can't write a script, we can't film a movie OR we don't know how to act?

During long car rides to the set, after I study my script, I go onto my iPad to read books and play games.

If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part.

If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.

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.

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

With a bad script and even the best cast, the most you can hope for is to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse.

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