I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm the only one responsible for the choices I make and the opportunities I get. When you read the script, you don't know how it's going to shape up. You just know what you've been narrated.
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.
My job is really to... everyone is reading the script, and my job is to make sure we all interpret it in as much the same way as possible. And then I give them the freedom to sort of - to get their performance across and then make suggestions where things are not working and accentuate and push things where they really are working.
I consider my job as a screenwriter to pack a script with possibilities and ideas - to create a feast for the filmmaker to pick from.
It's my job to write the best book I can each month and hand my scripts in. Everything else is beyond my control.
I always write the script by myself.
Sometimes you're reading something, and you don't know it will be important in your life. You're reading this script, and you start to get involved. It's not an intellectual experience.
I always feel this huge responsibility to the script when it arrives, keeping it confidential.
I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don't know why. It's not something conscious or that I'm doing on purpose.
I don't really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.