I Probably Wouldn't Have Done As Many

Basically, If You Could Get A Good Trailer Out Of The Script, Roger Had No Objection To You Making A Really Good Movie. He Liked It If You Did. He Liked The More Cleverness And Ingenuity You Could Bring To It. He Just Wasn't Going To Give You Any More Money.

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 Figured, 'when Is That Ever Going To Happen Again?'. So I Basically Set Out The Opposite Way Movies Are Made; I Set Out With A Budget First. I Said, 'what Can I Do Well For $40,000?'.

But Compared To Writing A Novel, Where You Can Be God, I Did The Bay Of Pigs Invasion In Six Pages Once, And There Were 50,000 Guys With Boots That I Didn't Have To Pay, And All Those Extras; We Didn't Have To Pay Them.

I've Always Got Five Or Six Things That Would Either Make A Good Feature Or Tv Show. And You Just Never Know. You Go And You Pitch And It May Be Exactly What They're Looking For, Or They May Stop You After Two Sentences And Say, "oh, We've Already Done Something Just Like That."