This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Writing film scripts is the hardest thing in the world. A script has to go to five or six drafts, and you need the feedback of other people and to keep coming back with a fresh eye, honing it down.
I don't want to write any more screenplays, I'll tell you that right now. It's a waste of time. You've got too many people who think they have the answer to a good screenplay and they don't. No one knows.
I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.
If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.
Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.
I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.
That freedom of writing you don't get in other formats, I'd rather leave it to someone else to deal with the headache of drafting my book into a screenplay.
I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it.