The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.
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It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.
Once, I had so many scripts coming to me that I could hardly read them all.
For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
To make the script, you need ideas, and for me a lot of times, a final script is made up of many fragments of ideas that came at different times.
These things are hard to pin down. We work on a script a bit, then work on a different one.
A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic behind the words. I have to be with the script for quite a long time before things start to fall into place, before they become part of the character.
If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
Sometimes we'll only get one script in a year that we want to make that we feel is good enough.
Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.
A script is a unique literary form, because it's not the end product; it's a blueprint. If you're not thinking of that end product, there's going to be a disconnect.