If It Sounds Good As You Say

The Major Difference Frequently Is In Time. The Motion Picture, For Example, Gives You Considerably More Freedom Of Expression Than Does The Confined Thirty-minute Television Show. But In Essence, They're Not That Dissimilar.

I Don't Have Close Relationships With Agents. They're Friends, But They're Not Confidants.

The Tendency When You Dictate Is To Overwrite, Because You're Not Counting Pages, You Don't Really Know What The Hell The Page Count Is.

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.

I Think I'd Rather Win, For Example, A Writer's Guild Award Than Almost Anything On Earth. And The Few Nominations I've Had With The Guild, And The Few Awards I've Had, Represented To Me A Far More Legitimate Concrete Achievement Than Anything.