Tim Bevan quotes:

Scripts are what matter... if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don't stand a shot.

Any additional spotlight you can put onto an opening of a film is a great thing to get.

Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a shot... but if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don't stand a shot. It's very rare-almost never-that a good film gets made from a bad screenplay.