So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.
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You're always looking for good scripts and when they're not always forthcoming you go mad.
It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't.
For every three scripts that you get through, one will be made, and that doesn't even necessarily mean that they're going to cast you in it.
They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.
To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: 'We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,' and when you ask what's left, they say: 'Well, the typing is very good.'
I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.
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 read the script. If I like it, I would do anything I am asked to.
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.
I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.
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