Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
With some writers, the script looks beautiful on the page, but nobody actually speaks like that.
When you read a script, you get a feeling from it.
I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?
When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
It's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working.
I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very vivid as I read the script and I'm not having to create stuff and trying to cobble together something. If I have to do that, then I don't entirely trust what I'm doing.
It was pretty much the way that it was when I first read it, although one exception would be that some ideas that I had were also incorporated into the script.
It's my experience that scientists can find it difficult to understand the needs of scriptwriters or storytellers.
I've done a number of things based on real people or true stories or based on books, and I'm a great believer that you have to be true to the script.
Every script I've written and every series I've produced have expressed the things I most deeply believe.