There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As I get on and films take four years to complete, I tend to have a hankering for very short projects so you can move on to the next idea. It's the ideas I'm interested in. What comes out of your head.
The last thing I ever wanted to get involved with is Hollywood. The way it works is that people get an idea you could possibly do something, but there's a one-in-a-hundred chance that it could get made.
The Hollywood model is to develop scripts for 10 years, sell them, transfer them, attach this actor, then attach a director. This isn't what I'm about. I'm much more of a creator and a doer.
I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves.
Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.
We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.
In future also, we would like to back films that can be considered slightly risky since they don't have song and dance.
The painful part of being a new writer on 'ER' is that you come on with all these great ideas, and you find out we've already done them.
I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.
As Hollywood knows, I'm full of ideas.