When I select a topic, it's usually a commitment of two to three years of my life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.
It's not easy to sustain a long career, and sometimes I don't even think about how long I've been doing it.
If you're going to spend two or three years immersed in a subject, you better be deeply interested in it, or it won't be interesting to the reader.
When I decide to do something, I stick with it, total commitment.
A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.
I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
When I make a commitment I stick to it.
As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?
With my career, considering my age and how much time I've been out... how much time I've got left, nobody knows.
I'm a little commitment phobic, in that I've always been someone who likes to take things one year at a time because as we all know, a year can change everything in your life.