1.   And to learn how to read a screenplay, and speak to the director and understand the characters.

2.   Broderick endures all this looking as fearful as he should have been when first reading the screenplay.

3.   He had read the screenplay and thought he might like to try his hand at directing it.

4.   Officials of Warner Bros., curious about the Kubrick films they were financing, could read his screenplays only by flying to London.

5.   So next I requested and read her screenplay and was convinced to do it.

6.   Still, you have to wonder if the people who run the studios even read the screenplays before committing huge amounts of money to a project.

7.   When I read the screenplay it affected me.

8.   As Hunter discovered when she first read the screenplay, the part of Ruby -- spirited and wry of wit -- nearly leaps off the page.

9.   Gere said he accepted the role immediately after he read the screenplay.