If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.
In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.
I'm not the greatest reader. I feel like I have a bit of dyslexia or something, and that's probably why I became a filmmaker. I have the need to communicate, the need to tell stories; and the need to understand stories led me to movies.
I haven't really tried to write a movie. It's tough to get into that mode.
I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.
You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.
I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies.
I still think like a critic, and I still analyze films like a critic. However, it's not possible to write criticism if you're making films.