I think Cool Hand Luke was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy reads Paul Newman the riot act. The speech about going in the box.
I think there's something strange about writing a script I've written many, many scripts - dozens and dozens of scripts - and every time I start one,… - Brian Helgeland
I think there's something strange about writing a script I've written many, many scripts - dozens and dozens of scripts - and every time I start one,…
- Brian Helgeland
Because I've been at it so long and very steadily, I have a lot of credits, but I probably have twice as many scripts that were never made for whatev… - Brian Helgeland
Because I've been at it so long and very steadily, I have a lot of credits, but I probably have twice as many scripts that were never made for whatev…
I think test screenings with an audience are useful because they have no dog in the fight, they just say how they feel. - Brian Helgeland
I think test screenings with an audience are useful because they have no dog in the fight, they just say how they feel.
I think writing is a difficult thing and you need to suffer a little bit, even if it's just to sit there and think what an idiot you are and how anyo… - Brian Helgeland
I think writing is a difficult thing and you need to suffer a little bit, even if it's just to sit there and think what an idiot you are and how anyo…
It's always once the script's done in the first two years if it doesn't get going somehow or another, I've never had an old script that someone's mad… - Brian Helgeland
It's always once the script's done in the first two years if it doesn't get going somehow or another, I've never had an old script that someone's mad…
For me in a film, almost every scene you end up cutting a bit of the start of it out, and some of the end of it out because there's always...once you… - Brian Helgeland
For me in a film, almost every scene you end up cutting a bit of the start of it out, and some of the end of it out because there's always...once you…
I think Cool Hand Luke was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy re… - Brian Helgeland
I think Cool Hand Luke was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy re…
If Im in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it? - Brian Helgeland
If Im in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?
In my own experience, the scripts that I wrote, if they didn't go within two years and become a film, they never went and no one ever came looking fo… - Brian Helgeland
In my own experience, the scripts that I wrote, if they didn't go within two years and become a film, they never went and no one ever came looking fo…
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