The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.
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When you make a movie, you don't know how it'll turn out. You can only guess.
The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.
A movie is like a tip of an iceberg, in a way, because so little of what you do in connection with making a movie actually gets into the movie. Almost everything gets left behind.
I generally don't walk out of films. If I start a book, and I don't love it by page 100, I will stop reading because it's just too much of a time commitment. But you never know with a movie what's going to turn around.
You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.
Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
You never know what to expect when you're a writer visiting a movie set.
You know how it is, somebody will see your work and like it and remember it, then decide to make it a role in their film.
Once you know how to make a movie, you can't not make a movie.
Writers are so used to books being optioned and then the movie never happens.
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