I can imagine there is going to come a time when someone will do 13 hours of a story without breaks.
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The thing with being on a series that runs that long is that the writers run out of things to do.
When I'm on a good go, I can do 12, 13 hours of writing.
I think it's much more natural as a writer to want to tell one story rather than lots of small stories that are half an hour long.
You can have the greatest characters in the world and write beautifully, but if nothing's happening, the story falls on its face pretty quickly.
The script for 'Thirteen' is tight, and not because of the now-famous six day writing spree, but more because it started out as 15 pages longer.
I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
Typically on a TV series, the writers on a show are writing for their life almost every episode. When someone sits down to write a Netflix show, they know there's going to be a 13th hour.
You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year.
I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why exactly.
Whenever you're adapting something that's a 12- or 14-hour read down to something that has to be around two hours, there's going to be some cuts.