This Is A Time For Serious People,

Helen Mirren And Meryl Streep Can Play With The Boys But There Just Aren't That Many Tour-de-force Roles Out There For Women.

Humans Know When It's Not A Good Story. Unless You Do This For A Living, You May Not Know Exactly Why You Don't Like A Story, But You Can't Fool An Audience Ever. They Know When You Have It And They Know When You Don't.

I Don't Think I Write Differently When I'm Writing A Screenplay, As Opposed To A Stage Play Or A Teleplay. Maybe If I Were In A Film Class And There Was Time To Think About It, We Could Point Out Differences.

I Consider Plot A Necessary Intrusion On What I Really Want To Do, Which Is Write Snappy Dialogue. But When I'm Writing, The Way The Words Sound Is As Important To Me As What They Mean.

Any Time You Get Two People In A Room Who Disagree About Anything, The Time Of Day, There Is A Scene To Be Written. That's What I Look For.