Occupation: Film Writer Birth: April 10, 1963
It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories..
You're working with other people and sometimes it doesn't work out the way you want, and sometimes you didn't realise what a mistake you've made unti….
I give everything my best shot and sometimes it doesn't work out and other times it works out much better than you thought..
You don't really work together with Clint Eastwood. I mean, he takes the script and he shoots it - and he shoots it very faithfully..
I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama, because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can….
Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I think broadl….
People test movies within an inch of their life, so that the entire audience experience is a uniform one..
There's no way of telling why you want to do things beforehand. Something just grabs you. It might not grab you six months later, and it might not ha….
A 20-year-old is never going to give death a second thought, whereas someone in their late 50s is going to think about it... I don't know, 20 times a….
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative..
It's really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it's bad you just never show it to anyone..
I'm always pre-occupied with what it is that I'm doing at the moment..
I don't want to direct. I have no directing ambition whatsoever. And as long as I meet filmmakers like Tom Hooper, Stephen Frears, and others who all….