Do I Want To Start My Own

I Find It Very Difficult To Live Through The Censorship Of Profanity On Television.

There's A Marvelous And Unique Man Named Frank Gilroy. He's The Only Writer I Know Who Absolutely, Pointedly Refuses To Do Any Changes That He Doesn't Feel Are Absolutely Essential And Totally In Keeping With His Own View And Perspective. But Not Too Many Writers Are That Independent And That Strong-willed.

Essentially, The Scripts Are Not That Different. Let's Say, In Literary Terms, It's The Difference Between Writing Horizontally And Writing Vertically. In Live Television, You Wrote Much More Vertically. You Had To Probe People Because You Didn't Have Money Or Sets Or Any Of The Physical Dimensions That Film Will Allow You. So You Generally Probed People A Little Bit More. Film Writing Is Much More Horizontal. You Can Insert Anything You Want: Meadows, Battlefields, The Taj Mahal, A Cast Of Thousands. But Essentially, Writing A Story Is Writing A Story.

Just Drawing Back And Drawing In; Becoming Narcissistic.

I Find Dictating In The Mass Media Particularly Good Because You're Writing For Voice Anyway; You're Writing For People To Say A Line And, Consequently, Saying A Line Through A Machine Is Quite A Valid Test For The Validity Of What You're Saying.