I had written a script called 'Freed,' which I had wanted to direct.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
When placed in command, take charge.
I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script, but I keep reading scripts, because I might find something.
Writing 'Redeployment' shook me in ways I never expected.
I'm not used to a script.
I've never had a written script.
If somebody sent me a good script, I would do it, and I mean that, but it never happens. Not once. I can't even point to an exception.
So I departed and was free from imprisonment.
I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.
What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.