It Is Difficult To Produce A Television

In Terms Of Screenwriting Adaptations It's Trying To Cut Out Stuff That's Extraneous, Without Doing Damage To The Original Piece, Because You Owe A Debt Of Some Respect To The Original Author. That's Why It Was Bought.

When I First Went Into Freelancing, I Think There Was A Period Of About Eight Months When Nothing Happened. Everything That I Wrote Crumbled Up, And Then It Became A Self-destructive Thing - When You Begin To Doubt Yourself, When Doubt Turns Into - It's Sort Of Like Impotence. Once Impotent, You're Forever Impotent. Because You're Always Worried About Being Impotent.

I Would Guess That The Price Of The Script Really Is Secondary. The Credit Is Much More The Essence.

You Must Always Assume That The Relationship Between Writer And Producer Is That Of Adversaries - However You Slice It. They May Be Your Dearest Friends, And They'll Invite You To Dinner, But When All The Smoke Clears And The Ozone Lifts, Your Enemy Is The Producer, That's The Guy You're Competing With, And You Have To Battle Him, Just As If You Were An Adversary.

I've Never Planned Ahead.i Just Sort Of Go Through Life Checking The Menu Of Three Meals That Day. I Never Worry About Tomorrow. It's Only Since I've Gotten Older That I've Begun To Wonder About Time Running Out. Is It Sufficient Unto Itself That I Don't Plan? Because Maybe Next Thursday Won't Come One Day. And Then, I'm Concerned About That. But That's Not Uniquely The Writer's Concern, That's The Concern Of Every Middle-aged Man Who Looks In The Mirror.