A lot of feature films do two pages a day.
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If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.
In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.
With a series, keeping the quality high and writing incredibly fast, that's the first lesson you learn. You can't be real precious. When you're doing a feature film, you have 2 1/2 months; you sort of take your time. It's a different animal.
I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.
With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.
I can only write about two or three pages of fiction a day.
As an actor, I like to get a bit of momentum going with a character and kind of work a bit quicker. I mean, not crazy-fast, but, you know, five or six pages a day is a nice pace.
A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
In daytime, they're doing 50-60 pages a day, whereas nighttime, you do seven or eight.
The key thing is that you start every film from sort of a blank page, almost like you discover it like a child discovers a new world.