I was not the kind of a principal player that was so in demand that eight or 10 or 12 scripts came per month.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.
Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all.
There seems to be a pattern. I get one good script every two years.
My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.
I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.
A lot of times, for videogames, you get almost no time to prepare with a script. You've got a director that's going line for line, filling you in on what's happening, and some games are even less than that.
Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.
I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.
Personally, I read a lot of scripts.