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Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.

Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.

Some people, especially literary people, they think, 'I'll write this original script, and it will be full of ideas. I'll submit it, and they'll hire me for television.' That's not the case.

Hundreds of people who've never written before send in 'Dr. Who' scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

It's hard writing screenplays.

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

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.

The first thing that attracts me to any script is the writing. If I find myself becoming lost in a good yarn, then I feel certain that others will, too.

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.