As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I knew it was going to work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.
Pretty much everything I've written is a mix of excitement and fear.
I know that Julia has been given to me for my spiritual growth, and this moment is perfect for us both. I know that I love her, and I know she's my soul mate.
I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
I often start writing in order to excite an expansive emotion.
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
I'm constantly being surprised and finding unplanned things - because the writing is a process of experiencing things on the ground with the characters.
I start with a character and a situation, but I don't know what's going to happen until I write it. Sometimes things happen that surprise me.
When my sitcom 'Miranda' first became successful, I was so in the thick of working and I was so stressed that I didn't really enjoy the moment. You suddenly look back and go, 'Gosh, you've just got to enjoy every day.' And now I wake up and literally pinch myself every day.
I lost that excitement I had when I first started out. It was all about the need to just get a job, and so I found the joy again when I was writing Deuce Bigelow. I was laughing so hard and along with my writing partner at the time, simply laughing until we cried.