You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You have to constantly work on your script if it needs it. You don't accept, 'Oh, I did a draft and...' No, it's your responsibility to work on the script as much as possible and make it better and better.
I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.
I very rarely read a script that I don't feel I want to change a lot.
I just have a belief that when there is a rare script out there that speaks to you, you have to stick with it. You have to.
I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don't know why. It's not something conscious or that I'm doing on purpose.
Writing, yeah. Me and my friend Scott Bloom just finished the first rough draft of a script. It's taken us three years to do, but we finally got a first draft. And we'll see whatever happens with that.
I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.
I just take every script as it comes along and take it from there.
I always write the script by myself.
I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.