Sometimes you just dread reading scripts; it's like the chef who doesn't want to cook at home.
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A cookbook is not like being an author. It's writing down recipes; it's not writing.
Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.
The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home.
Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.
A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
Sometimes reading scripts is terrible.
There are so many things that come into writing a recipe, and it's really important if you're writing for home cooks to be cooking like you are at home.
When I thought I couldn't write recipes, my boss at the time advised, 'Write as you talk.'
Cooking at home is easier than cooking in the restaurant because you don't have to write a menu or try to please everybody.
I always feel like a script is a recipe, and then you bring the elements into the recipe, and you cook with it.