I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.
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When I was in advertising, I did a great deal of work on television commercials. A co-worker and I wrote a screenplay, which led to a few more screenplays, and some were optioned by production companies. I was advised to move to California but didn't want to make the move. I decided to use another form of storytelling, so I wrote a novel.
I wouldn't like to just do one story or one type of stories all the time.
I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.
I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.
There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
As a result of my life on the road and the increasing number of rainy afternoons in cinemas, I began to get the idea that I might write a film.
If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay or a poem. Be flexible.
My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.
I really like writing from real-life experiences. Audiences seem to prefer the stuff I couldn't have made up.
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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