When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start.
Unless you're doing a feature piece, which is going to be longer, and you have more time to get into stuff.
I hope to direct a feature very soon. That is a big goal for me. I'm looking forward to hopefully getting that opportunity.
There was a solid year and a half, perhaps two years, after making 'Temple Grandin,' when I didn't do anything. I just didn't have much patience for roles that were silly, or light, or inconsequential.
It was weird because I'd only been in L.A. for about six months and I had my first feature.
Sticking to my schedule, I've gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a 'Pearls Before Swine' movie script for the big screen.
Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece.
At Square, we got our tech up and running in three weeks, but it took us 18 months to get licenses, banking relationships and everything else we needed to be able to move money. We had to partner up with major companies to do it.
It took 35 years, but the time was well spent and I think I have established a good stake in the future.
So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television series that went into the plumbing and I stopped writing for a while.