I allowed the scriptwriter to come to my parties for research and it's a good thing he did otherwise I don't think Personal Services would've been so good.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it.
I've been very fortunate with the scripts I've had and the people I worked with.
I never turn down scripts without good reason. If I did, I would probably never work.
Writing scripts is a laborious job that can be a real pain.
As a writer, it's very difficult to just hand your script over to someone else, especially if you have to watch them hurt it, and that's when I decided I would direct my own work.
I always feel this huge responsibility to the script when it arrives, keeping it confidential.
I read the script. If I like it, I would do anything I am asked to.
It's very rare you get a great script just handed to you, or sent to you, by someone you don't know.
Howard Minsky had gotten the script to her agent prior to my involvement.
Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak off and do it in private.
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