I think if you get your fifth script made, that's the fast track. But there's no guarantee any of them will get made.
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For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
I've been involved with some huge studio projects that have been bloody awesome. It all starts with a great script, doesn't it?
It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.
These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.
Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.
I have written a bunch of scripts that have not gotten produced, much more so early in my career than later.
It's fun to improvise, but I still think it's better to have a great script, you know, like a Charlie Kaufman script.
Writing film scripts is the hardest thing in the world. A script has to go to five or six drafts, and you need the feedback of other people and to keep coming back with a fresh eye, honing it down.
I just take every script as it comes along and take it from there.
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