It was a great circumstance when I received the script of [Chloe] and Atom [Egoyan] said he wanted me to do it. I was inclined to say 'yes' immediately.
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.
Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.
I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me
I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.
My brain does like the idea of hosting a late-night show. My brain does like the idea of maybe having a show about me. So, I often pitch ideas and work on scripts and do that just because I may not be right about how I feel, so why not just do this, and if it happens and I got my own show, well maybe I would really end up falling in love with it.
Ever since the movie premiered at Cannes, I've had a sudden surge of scripts and interest
It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.
I was really not familiar at all with Edward Snowden. I like to get that right out of the way and really learned most of what I know from Oliver's [Stones] script.
Once you crack the script, everything else follows.
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 won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.
Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.
I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.
Personally, I read a lot of scripts.
There are scripts that have come our way that are much more likely to be hits, but we don't really think that way.
I did do a presentation pilot with Jesse Eisenberg and he's wonderful. He's such a great writer. He directed me and he wrote these wonderful scripts and we're waiting to hear if marketers and advertisers think that an audience wants to look at a bad mom and her 10-year-old son in a show.
The script is what you`ve dreamed up-this is what it should be. The film is what you end up with.
If I were actually Homer Simpson, I'd be getting scripts out the wazoo.