It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you're writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.
I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.
I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.
I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.
When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.
The filmmaking process is a team effort. A screenwriter cannot possibly do exactly what he wants as if he was writing a novel.
If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering with a screenplay, you have to be quite pragmatic; otherwise, it will run away from you.
The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
It's hard writing screenplays.
When a director is also a writer, everyone on the production looks to him, knowing he gave birth to the idea. There's a different level of viability.