剧本中的故事

主演：

John Carpenter,Frank Darabont,David Hayter,Paul Schrader

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微电影 纪录片

导演：

Peter Hanson

年代：

2009

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美国

语言：

英语

更新：

2020-03-05 16:06

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you understand how hollywood works.when i have writen ghost i walk out of with a number of executives bruce,we just want you to know the ghost is the best script we have ever read,i just i couldn't quite believe it, but i just feel oh my god,i felt so wonderfull,but a week later as i walk out of behind those same executives who are walking with another writer,i was listenning to them they said to the writer we just want you to know your script is the best script we have ever read if you go to a store and buy a play by Tennessee Williams or someone,you can come home in your chair and open the play and read it and have a real exprience with it.you haven't seen the play,but you've read it.well,the same thing should be true of a good screen play,you bring it home and sit in your chair,and you should have an exprience with it,because the writer has created a play. the most difficult thing the script does which is the most difficult in movie making is to make a precise detailed decision.it's easy to say let's have an exciting chase along the beach here where he finds out his partner is gonna betray him,the person says genius i just came out with a scene,that's not hard,anybody can do that after a while watching movies. script writting is kind of visible if script is done really really well.it seems like writer make it alive.the writer knew the camera is there,the movie sort of came together all by itself There's so much to master from character, to dialog, to plot, to theme, to concept. It's this machine with a lot of levers and buttons and when you're starting out it takes a long time to master all those things and play them like a pipe organ, well; all at the same time. the screen play is mathematical it's like music and it's precise,it's not like a novel,it's not like free-form poetry.it happen in time,it starts and ends,you write it over a long-period time but you exprience it in a movie is more or less to that's like tell the painter how your camera is everytime,in that two hours you can tell a little story or you can tell a huge when i write a screen play,i always write an outline before hand because films are achitecture,you need to get your blueprint down which is your outline or you gonna be completely lost quality of writting which is crucial and almost every other form of literature it's not you're a achitecter but they are building a building sometime they decide you know what that's not quiet kind of building we want If you're a purist, and you don't want your words touched; you should either be a playwright or an author. if you are gonna be a screen play writer and expect your words are gonna be treated like god,that's not reality. the writer in hollywood is truely truely abused entity it is realy cruel on some levels,the writer have so little participation in the work they create. from the moment everyone else claim to love it attempt to remove that from the material as much as possible when the writer gets started not only that the producer's girlfriend have a better chance to get a writing credit than your writer represent the writer is at the bottom of the sometime some time in the early days sometime not that crap never goes away a lot of guys get used and abused a lot of guys come up with ideas they can't pull them off we rewritten they dump it a couple of years ago i wrote it,is gonna be the most responsible people i keep getting people called we want to talk about it.i said ok.where does this come from?did you adapt it from a book,i sat down and i wrote it but it's so detailed feels like it's such a world i'm a writer,what do you think we do. around this place you want to get to and there is crack on the wall you feeling the cracks,you try to find the crack,the moment you find your crack you slip through,that crack seels up,nobody else can get through that crack. i had written a novel called no way to treat a lady which was very short,so to make it longer i made a lot of chapters like sixty chapters in a hundred pages book get a hold of it,they ask me to do a movie from it when they ask for it it is not done but it is all my mistake from location to another that's what i did it every weekend i kind of learn it by watching it's supposed to be a film let it go the year after i graduate from i got it in ma in the film study not in fma in film making to exercise these things that were eating me up taxi driver and i went on wrote other scripts i did the same thing i met them both i talk with them a little bit that was 48 hours that was my first screen play i was luck kind of movie i like not just in america but in the globe market place 1980 did't have money to pay me so offer me a job a week report on them at night i was writing on my own you realy quite learn what good screen play is they called me up and said we'd like to write for this new show called amazing stories i was on food stamps at that time it was a tremedous opportunity i write it in three days based on steven's story they asked me to do another one right away i went from food stamps and good wishes to working for steven spielberg i just want to make a movie about lesbians and so me and my girlfrind decide to make movie about lesbians we just wrote script it's far more widely sucessful than we anticipated and life went into good running i produce this more future in 1970 at the end of that i need a job so bryan was kind enough to give me a job answering the phone on his next production which was x-man the whole time he was complainnig about the script i hate this this is not working this is gonna ruin my career i want you to have run into each other says this says this set up what you are gonna do on the road go write that thing for me he asked me to starting comming to the story meeting and take notes not tell the studio what i was doing the studio eventually find out i get credit in the movie it was first writing job i was suited to deal with a lot of challeges who come out here it's hard to think of me as 's son i used to be homeless when i was teennage because i don't have any falimy i don't have parents,i was a security guard i have found my family i want go and meet them so i have to tell my boss why i want to go a bit of my story,go on when i came back a lot of other people want to hear my story it will make a good movie i insist on writing it the price of getting into the film business have a lot of compensation a brick wall in front of you are you gonna build a ladder are gonna dig a tunnel are you gonna sit back on the beach chair watch everybody else head against them how are you gonna get over that wall the situation i wrote under two little kids have to get up with them have to write at night when they were asleep it's kind of situ are working on the script kids are running around i said you kids go in another room we are working come on my elder put arm on the other one let's go they are working,they are always working and they never get paid for it the long you get to be a real screen writer the years of not having any money what else do you do you're a writer what else do you do how do you pay you bills that's reality it took you ten years or nine years for you like took me to start working as a professional don't think the first thing that gonna rise is to get yourself a million dollar you don't know what to expect i think that's probably the best because if you knew what was gonna come you would't do it you just wait for that opportunity How many times have we heard that story? I sent it out a million times, everybody rejected it, great people rejected it, smart people rejected it; and then one guy stumbles on it and says, "This is what I've been looking for." i saw my first project when i was twenty called for a and nothing happened for seven years none of my films was played in a big theator of america most of my films have gone out on hbo tnt video dvd it's been frustrating i wish i had a bigger career, there have been several almost clint eastwood was thinking about doing a project of mine but did not almost said yes but she choose something else someone along the line he says no your career goes a different way If you wanna write movies, you can't stop when you get pissed on and rejected. because you gonna get and rejected,nobody want your stuff they want you basicly become somebody they will read it nobody want to basicly give anybody a first shot found who's openning this agency somebody gave me a name he busted me you don't realy know this person i said no i said i just read this novel and i think you should see i told him it's totally paid off he called me back a couple of weeks later,i like this who wrote it i say i did would you represent me and he said yes he's been my agent ever since the joke is,i try to make through my career with one agent and one wife and so far i met them both i remember i talked onetime to he's a big agent,one time i hear cma was a big agency he was a head of this i'd either sold a good script or abad script anybody can sell a good script i can get a lot of money for a piece of junk that prove what a good agent i am i got my first job while it was a pretty big job even we got paid minimum it was firm the whore thing was packaged by caa,my new writing partner said this is it caa is gonna represent us they are huge they are gonna our career i remmeber right after we got a job called us for a meeting so we put on our best suit,sat in the waiting room and look at the we are just overwelmed by caa the third asistant came down introduced himself the second asistant brought the first asistant we finally got brought in to meet the agent it's probly a 3 or 4 minutes meeting we went in they sat us down,we don't know who you are we are not going to do anything for you all i can tell you is you know after you leave my office you should find another agency fuck ourselves,have a nice day. if i want to write,i sat down and keep on writing if i want to draw a blank paper i draw if i make a movie i ask somebody for moeny the only reason why they are gonna give me the money is they think they can make more money back than they gave me if they didn't think they can make more money back than they gave me they beat it they don't give me the money i do a little homework i put a colum of original screenplay sold and produced i have three of those sold but not produced i have six of those and not sold or produced i have nine i was a little surprised that's a lot of works that's a lot of pages stay on the shelf nine scripts hundreds of pages each that's a lot of pages you know i walked in the first thing they said to me we really like your script Something that will always sell in Hollywood, is high concept. It's usually; you take THIS and you match it with THAT, and then you got a movie. Like mafia vampires - Hey! It's A Movie! There's a phrase that you hear in Hollywood; 'It's a movie'. I didn't really understand that phrase when I first came into the business. It's code for: this script is everything we need it to be. It can attract an actor, it can attract a director, it can be marketed, it can attract an audience; it's a movie - it's complete. the first movie i wrote got made so i had this very unrealistic idea about how this works it seems like you write a movie it get made a lot of times i wrote movies it doesn't get made i have a project my agent says they really want to do a deal but the vice president has to hear a i waited for an hour and a half for this guy to be ready i go to his office he is on his counch moaning in pain he throw his back out in an hour to get it fixed i said listen this doesn't seem the best time to you maybe i should come back when you get better let us just get this over with so i didn't sell that project sitting here with all the people looking at me this is what it look like to me it's crazy because A script is already a description of a thing, so to be describing the description of the thing - is just existential madness. you go to do a you do a very good the person you to try to all the thing you said usually you can't do it very well what get turned down is not what you it's what they for five years i went to office and made the we'll never ever ever turn down because of the quality of the project there was no of any company to make a film about a little girl from the innercity who compete against national it was so different from what they made try to keep their jobs to meet the think about it come back we will talk about it to the idea taking his son to a guitar store try to at the end of my twenty minutes he said no all right i don't want to do that where is my chance,it's done i said well good luck what do you mean don't you want to do the movie i like this one tiny little part over here in the corner why don't we start from that i got my phone and called my agent and call my agency i think i just got a job i am terrified i don't know how the idea i can't do it i don't know how to do it it's always on paper first or a producer or a studio will say we'd like to do i think i can do it i will never committe be able to tell a story i'm not that much of an actor everybody says it's wonderfull they walk you to the elevator with their arms around your shoulders they thank you for coming in they all smile the elevator door closes you go home and the agent called they passed there are soft passes hard passes cold passes helpful passes encouraging passes ok,if i trust this guys with eighty thousand dollars or eight hundred thousand dollars don't matter where you ruin your career is that the investment is gonna pay off they are not in trouble if they say no nothing bad can happen to them they won't lose any money the moment they say yes their troubles began if you are an agent you have to get work if you are a studio you have to sell this idea to all of your compatroits.if you are a producer you should go get some studios interested in making this movie if they say no you just go to lunch one of my professor friend told me that they pick young people to go to war one reason is because they don't think they are gonna die it's the same thing you think you are gonna survice you are not gonna fail after a while just realise you are luck to be standing after a wave of machine gun bullets most of us have pushing very hard against the wall we've been pushing and pushing for so long when it suddenly disapears we fall into space that's a defination of sucess when i wrote alien i'm live in hollywood live on livingroom counch we got fifteen thousand dollars money we said that's a lot of money as soon as i graduate i wrote two or three scripts with my partner the second was the last action hero being part of that kind of when your agent is calling they just bid one hundred thousand they just bid for two hundred thousand it's like winning lottery for something you actually did the first day there were sixty bids at that time and i dedicde i better write as fast as hard as i can now wrote hardcore just try to knock these things out as quickly as i could i learned early i can't write anything not about me about my exprience about my needs fears desires whatever his issues have to be issues i care about personly i would make a lot of money if i'm a good listener somebody said i would pay you three million dollar to write script about alien star i can't do it i want your money but i don't know how it's not my exprience that big paycheck on two occasion it's bigger than anybody receive for screen play in history taking me out for a few years not letting me enjoy a my work, or b contiue to produce the level i was scared it can freeze you it's hard to find shawshank everytime when make movie if it's easy everybody would be making shawshank first movie nominated for best picture sceenplay the idea is to not to let it be those things,maybe you shouldn't even try i decide to keep smoking my ass until it get to my head that's a lot of smoke that come at you if you start to believe you can't be creative you start listenning you think that's the big thing you can get into you got all the answers you got all the exprience in the world it doesn't matter whether you win or lose for ninty minutes you have to have a win that's because i have been a who think he is gonna be in business for ninty years four sequeal to that movie obviously i was wrong we wrote a movie called that's a great rejection we offen laugh at a lot of meeting make a billion dallars worldwide we got something here we wrote this scipt we love it it's black comedy just very dark we love it it gonna hit the market someone's gonna buy it we went out how luck american was to get this movie we count the money we have someone take a picture of us guess what no one was interested Nobody gives you credit for the previous time at bat you were so great yesterday they will let you go to the first space with having to go to play no, you have to get a hit every time you're up. when we went in look you haven't seen this you havn't seen it about a professional woman looking for love it's been a while let's do it not big box office let's get something new going on inspire an alien it took me eight years to get it total made maybe i have a director i couldn't get an actor i have an actor i couldn't get a director this went on for eight years I think in the film business there is never one break-through moment, there is a series of moments. my fifth script that caught me a lot of attention from there i get hired to do a couple of jobs here and there and then my first real big break i think was when we got air force one on the ground i sent script to harrison fort he said yes at certain points i want you to make enough in box office that's your reputation you have a reputation as a money maker if you want to continue to work told me he made god father he said i can for year from now he was wrong he can for years life become easy i get kind of disgusted about myself because i wasn't writing much i wasn't writing well and one day i woke up i was lying in bed thinking of it i got a piece of paper,wrote on the top a list of things to do before kick the box number one get to make a studio find a perfect woman convince her that i'm not and get her to marry me i wrote the whole story of bucket list a list of thing they want to do with short time they have left our studio said no one of them said we get this in the right hand this could get done who you want to show this who would it be bob reiner made pretty good movies three days later he called up hello i've read thirty pages of these thing if it's good with you it's gonna be my next movie i have written the movie with 's voice in my head rob got mogan's number called him up we got a script you should read we are glad said yes we've been talking about who would play the other character we have a list of usual suspects,a bunch of names we never sure who it would be said jacknicholson and i have talked about wanting to work together if i have a bucklist working with jacknicholson would be on that list what are you gonna say to that sent the script to jack a week later he called yeah i'll do it i shuold look at my face descript what that's like the greatest day in my life was september 3th 2006 i got married in new york next morning i woke up at five up kiss her goodbye flew to sanfrancisco i walked in i sat down on his dinningroom table it was me moganfreeman rob reiner jack nicholson the first scene was two actors talk to each other it's absolutely the most undescripable feeling it was perfect crazy enough it's a year to the day that just doesn't happen i was working in my way it was a one man show someone want your idea in the screenplay but they want you to rewrite it they can't screw around with it until you turn in your version then they could do it but now it's a whole different story the film studio used to be run by people who are in film business who have been producers who have been agents who knew the game the ups and downs in the game but that all changes in the early 80s when came from abc over to paramout he brought and the whole concept of market research the studio hate the idea they had to take the about what's gonna make money if you talk about studio if you are interested in story in new made motion i found that really boring and bit of a cheat the movie that make me become a writer are ordinary people toosie network rocky all the great stuff from the 70s fiddlers on the roof jaws the god father the greatest movie ever all the president'smen those are impossible to make now ordinary people wouldn't get paid anymore it will a live time television movie it's not kinds of things studios are doing those are kinds of things i start my career doing those are kinds of things that i think the people are still hungry for pirate of carabeen 8 probablly on the way and i understand it spiderman i get it they are gonna keep coming coming i go to meeting where they say we love the power of this thing where your leading lady says they kill my best friend they betrayed me they'll pay really appealing characterer do we have to kill that person could that person just be injuried that's a sort of like different thing when says i swear to god i'll never be hungry again you don't say i swear to god i'll neve miss lunch the cost is so terrifying i remember when i started we had powerfull director paul newman was the biggest star in the world i think the movie cost if you are gonna make a movie today with willsmith let's say a named director you are talking about that's if you are lucky that's one of the biggest changes everything is fucking expensive and it's getting worse it's hard to belive what's going on the water is rising being in the right place at the right time your idea have to be powerfull enough,that will carry you along the business changes you can complain about it that's what i do just look at that number right around your head they are gonna make ten a year twelve a year so where are all those scripts going they are going nowhere a movie that cost seventy eighty a hundred million dallar just to make is gonna cost another hundred dollar to promote that's two hundred million dollar risk so of course everybody is nervous everybody is gonna secondguess everything it's miracles movie comes out and give different points of view i think the public will be shocked to see how many movies end up terrific start as pretty good sceenplay these screenplay it's kind of funny it's kind of silly it was stupid but it's charming the action is really coolin the process of what they do to script it get chopped mashed and turned out there are very few development executives producers who could really sit down and write a script and tell a story they don't really mean to jerk they didn't mean to be stupid they try to get something i remembe one moment in a meeting with people basicly told us two things in the script ok we can give you that but i just want you to know you just ask for two opposite things no it's not opposite she's supposed to be here in the world of living things this can't actually be Your job being on the receiving end of a 'good idea' in a development meeting, is to handle this turd as if it was a piece of gold. i can make my comment that i have that's the whole day waiting for that comment to come around so they can say that day that comment means nothing are you insane shutup to them that's their day with a comment that's the job for that day to say that this executive in your meeting she's been frustratied every movie come out of this process turn out to some kind of movie entainta boy he try to elevate the material then you have the person who's like who wants to show off in the meeting all the stuff is going on you want them to have a good meeting that's the whole thing there one thing you can do is you can go there if they can say anything in the meeting they can say any idea are doing something they are doing something they want to mess up their money they try to fool people they try to tick people they got great suitcase for i write that down used to be two people coming to a meeting and work on script with you now eight people come to work on your script they all yellow pad they all got opinion most of their opinions are bad they can't judge anything it's original or different they can only relate to something they see before they haven't been some other movie it's unfimiliar to them it got to be wrong i heard about a study somebody was doing about a perfect painting judged on question they were asked potential painting lovers across the world they would have a landscape they would have an animal somewhere in the front they would have a beautiful girl we just have these elements some audience came together based on and did that painting which was of course horrible painting that's kind of a way generously hollywood work through you need a dog what about a love story it's warmly let's have a love story you have these idiots i doesn't move it's too constructed sometime you just need to break off all that you need to mess up a little bit and try to i don't go to the operating room i think you should cut a little more to the left on the street corner will tell you what they feel was wrong about spiderman 3 they have opinion and if they went to yale or they can beat the studio and they can have their job the job is half having lunch and the other half is to go to meeting and getting paid to say spiderman was bad because it is sometime you got to know they says all the thing is boring can we put a car chase the scene is the quiet emotonal scene you intend to be emotional it's boring that means you might not have done your work seting up character's relationship 20 30 40 pages earlier you can completely disagree on two points within the framework of one grand vision of a moive if one person says it's a comedy oen person says it's a drama that's a little different we are making a comedy we are gonna make the funnist commedy ever made but i think this is funnier no i think this is funnier you know that that's the creative process i did a film for disney it was an idea they had it was a one word idea they say shawdows i came up with an idea about a guy who shadow a life he likes the girl he works with try to get humanbeing together i was happy with it i wrote this script and disney said it is really good it's a love story what we really want is a movie i can imagine your shadow with eddiemofia that's interesting that's completely not what i wrote i used to get notes someone says i need to do some work i used to get a note let's change the i used to try to make everyone happy so someone said i didn't like something and had a suggetion i will immediately try to that suggestion they are not hiring you because they want to tell you what to do as a screen writer they usually hire you because they need you opinion even someone sitting there saying i don't want to hear you opinion they do want to hear your opinion that's why you are there you need to fight through this some people have to go with the flow the flow will push you right out of door When I was a young man... in the business, I believed that my opinion was absolutely right and that I had the right answer to all questions. With age and experience I learned that I was right on all those occasions, but that there are several right answers to all occasions. The most important thing in a screenwriter's arsenal is this: Wear flats. You never want to be taller than whoever the producer is... and you are already. I'm just telling you right now; I don't have to do the statistics; I don't need a double-blind study. All the screenwriters are taller, in general, than all the producers. 'Always sit on the couch,' that's my advice to wannabe writers when they get in there. Don't take the big chair. Let the producer or the director take that. everything in my mind is based in relationship you built the relationship doing the work and come up with great idea somtime it doesn't click for whatever reason it's those ralationship you built with the producer at the base level they are gonna know you are the goal to dial for the next project the guy that someone like to work with who's handy who happen to be on the phone rope at that day and gets the call the relationship is really important is that a bad thing if you are not in the circle it can be extremely frustrating you have to know how to read the people you are with it's like he had to know who his partner is

you understand how hollywood works.when i have writen ghost i walk out of with a number of executives bruce,we just want you to know the ghost is the best script we have ever read,i just i couldn't quite believe it, but i just feel oh my god,i felt so wonderfull,but a week later as i walk out of behind those same executives who are walking with another writer,i was listenning to them they said to the writer we just want you to know your script is the best script we have ever read if you go to a store and buy a play by Tennessee Williams or someone,you can come home in your chair and open the play and read it and have a real exprience with it.you haven't seen the play,but you've read it.well,the same thing should be true of a good screen play,you bring it home and sit in your chair,and you should have an exprience with it,because the writer has created a play. the most difficult thing the script does which is the most difficult in movie making is to make a precise detailed decision.it's easy to say let's have an exciting chase along the beach here where he finds out his partner is gonna betray him,the person says genius i just came out with a scene,that's not hard,anybody can do that after a while watching movies. script writting is kind of visible if script is done really really well.it seems like writer make it alive.the writer knew the camera is there,the movie sort of came together all by itself There's so much to master from character, to dialog, to plot, to theme, to concept. It's this machine with a lot of levers and buttons and when you're starting out it takes a long time to master all those things and play them like a pipe organ, well; all at the same time. the screen play is mathematical it's like music and it's precise,it's not like a novel,it's not like free-form poetry.it happen in time,it starts and ends,you write it over a long-period time but you exprience it in a movie is more or less to that's like tell the painter how your camera is everytime,in that two hours you can tell a little story or you can tell a huge when i write a screen play,i always write an outline before hand because films are achitecture,you need to get your blueprint down which is your outline or you gonna be completely lost quality of writting which is crucial and almost every other form of literature it's not you're a achitecter but they are building a building sometime they decide you know what that's not quiet kind of building we want If you're a purist, and you don't want your words touched; you should either be a playwright or an author. if you are gonna be a screen play writer and expect your words are gonna be treated like god,that's not reality. the writer in hollywood is truely truely abused entity it is realy cruel on some levels,the writer have so little participation in the work they create. from the moment everyone else claim to love it attempt to remove that from the material as much as possible when the writer gets started not only that the producer's girlfriend have a better chance to get a writing credit than your writer represent the writer is at the bottom of the sometime some time in the early days sometime not that crap never goes away a lot of guys get used and abused a lot of guys come up with ideas they can't pull them off we rewritten they dump it a couple of years ago i wrote it,is gonna be the most responsible people i keep getting people called we want to talk about it.i said ok.where does this come from?did you adapt it from a book,i sat down and i wrote it but it's so detailed feels like it's such a world i'm a writer,what do you think we do. around this place you want to get to and there is crack on the wall you feeling the cracks,you try to find the crack,the moment you find your crack you slip through,that crack seels up,nobody else can get through that crack. i had written a novel called no way to treat a lady which was very short,so to make it longer i made a lot of chapters like sixty chapters in a hundred pages book get a hold of it,they ask me to do a movie from it when they ask for it it is not done but it is all my mistake from location to another that's what i did it every weekend i kind of learn it by watching it's supposed to be a film let it go the year after i graduate from i got it in ma in the film study not in fma in film making to exercise these things that were eating me up taxi driver and i went on wrote other scripts i did the same thing i met them both i talk with them a little bit that was 48 hours that was my first screen play i was luck kind of movie i like not just in america but in the globe market place 1980 did't have money to pay me so offer me a job a week report on them at night i was writing on my own you realy quite learn what good screen play is they called me up and said we'd like to write for this new show called amazing stories i was on food stamps at that time it was a tremedous opportunity i write it in three days based on steven's story they asked me to do another one right away i went from food stamps and good wishes to working for steven spielberg i just want to make a movie about lesbians and so me and my girlfrind decide to make movie about lesbians we just wrote script it's far more widely sucessful than we anticipated and life went into good running i produce this more future in 1970 at the end of that i need a job so bryan was kind enough to give me a job answering the phone on his next production which was x-man the whole time he was complainnig about the script i hate this this is not working this is gonna ruin my career i want you to have run into each other says this says this set up what you are gonna do on the road go write that thing for me he asked me to starting comming to the story meeting and take notes not tell the studio what i was doing the studio eventually find out i get credit in the movie it was first writing job i was suited to deal with a lot of challeges who come out here it's hard to think of me as 's son i used to be homeless when i was teennage because i don't have any falimy i don't have parents,i was a security guard i have found my family i want go and meet them so i have to tell my boss why i want to go a bit of my story,go on when i came back a lot of other people want to hear my story it will make a good movie i insist on writing it the price of getting into the film business have a lot of compensation a brick wall in front of you are you gonna build a ladder are gonna dig a tunnel are you gonna sit back on the beach chair watch everybody else head against them how are you gonna get over that wall the situation i wrote under two little kids have to get up with them have to write at night when they were asleep it's kind of situ are working on the script kids are running around i said you kids go in another room we are working come on my elder put arm on the other one let's go they are working,they are always working and they never get paid for it the long you get to be a real screen writer the years of not having any money what else do you do you're a writer what else do you do how do you pay you bills that's reality it took you ten years or nine years for you like took me to start working as a professional don't think the first thing that gonna rise is to get yourself a million dollar you don't know what to expect i think that's probably the best because if you knew what was gonna come you would't do it you just wait for that opportunity How many times have we heard that story? I sent it out a million times, everybody rejected it, great people rejected it, smart people rejected it; and then one guy stumbles on it and says, "This is what I've been looking for." i saw my first project when i was twenty called for a and nothing happened for seven years none of my films was played in a big theator of america most of my films have gone out on hbo tnt video dvd it's been frustrating i wish i had a bigger career, there have been several almost clint eastwood was thinking about doing a project of mine but did not almost said yes but she choose something else someone along the line he says no your career goes a different way If you wanna write movies, you can't stop when you get pissed on and rejected. because you gonna get and rejected,nobody want your stuff they want you basicly become somebody they will read it nobody want to basicly give anybody a first shot found who's openning this agency somebody gave me a name he busted me you don't realy know this person i said no i said i just read this novel and i think you should see i told him it's totally paid off he called me back a couple of weeks later,i like this who wrote it i say i did would you represent me and he said yes he's been my agent ever since the joke is,i try to make through my career with one agent and one wife and so far i met them both i remember i talked onetime to he's a big agent,one time i hear cma was a big agency he was a head of this i'd either sold a good script or abad script anybody can sell a good script i can get a lot of money for a piece of junk that prove what a good agent i am i got my first job while it was a pretty big job even we got paid minimum it was firm the whore thing was packaged by caa,my new writing partner said this is it caa is gonna represent us they are huge they are gonna our career i remmeber right after we got a job called us for a meeting so we put on our best suit,sat in the waiting room and look at the we are just overwelmed by caa the third asistant came down introduced himself the second asistant brought the first asistant we finally got brought in to meet the agent it's probly a 3 or 4 minutes meeting we went in they sat us down,we don't know who you are we are not going to do anything for you all i can tell you is you know after you leave my office you should find another agency fuck ourselves,have a nice day. if i want to write,i sat down and keep on writing if i want to draw a blank paper i draw if i make a movie i ask somebody for moeny the only reason why they are gonna give me the money is they think they can make more money back than they gave me if they didn't think they can make more money back than they gave me they beat it they don't give me the money i do a little homework i put a colum of original screenplay sold and produced i have three of those sold but not produced i have six of those and not sold or produced i have nine i was a little surprised that's a lot of works that's a lot of pages stay on the shelf nine scripts hundreds of pages each that's a lot of pages you know i walked in the first thing they said to me we really like your script Something that will always sell in Hollywood, is high concept. It's usually; you take THIS and you match it with THAT, and then you got a movie. Like mafia vampires - Hey! It's A Movie! There's a phrase that you hear in Hollywood; 'It's a movie'. I didn't really understand that phrase when I first came into the business. It's code for: this script is everything we need it to be. It can attract an actor, it can attract a director, it can be marketed, it can attract an audience; it's a movie - it's complete. the first movie i wrote got made so i had this very unrealistic idea about how this works it seems like you write a movie it get made a lot of times i wrote movies it doesn't get made i have a project my agent says they really want to do a deal but the vice president has to hear a i waited for an hour and a half for this guy to be ready i go to his office he is on his counch moaning in pain he throw his back out in an hour to get it fixed i said listen this doesn't seem the best time to you maybe i should come back when you get better let us just get this over with so i didn't sell that project sitting here with all the people looking at me this is what it look like to me it's crazy because A script is already a description of a thing, so to be describing the description of the thing - is just existential madness. you go to do a you do a very good the person you to try to all the thing you said usually you can't do it very well what get turned down is not what you it's what they for five years i went to office and made the we'll never ever ever turn down because of the quality of the project there was no of any company to make a film about a little girl from the innercity who compete against national it was so different from what they made try to keep their jobs to meet the think about it come back we will talk about it to the idea taking his son to a guitar store try to at the end of my twenty minutes he said no all right i don't want to do that where is my chance,it's done i said well good luck what do you mean don't you want to do the movie i like this one tiny little part over here in the corner why don't we start from that i got my phone and called my agent and call my agency i think i just got a job i am terrified i don't know how the idea i can't do it i don't know how to do it it's always on paper first or a producer or a studio will say we'd like to do i think i can do it i will never committe be able to tell a story i'm not that much of an actor everybody says it's wonderfull they walk you to the elevator with their arms around your shoulders they thank you for coming in they all smile the elevator door closes you go home and the agent called they passed there are soft passes hard passes cold passes helpful passes encouraging passes ok,if i trust this guys with eighty thousand dollars or eight hundred thousand dollars don't matter where you ruin your career is that the investment is gonna pay off they are not in trouble if they say no nothing bad can happen to them they won't lose any money the moment they say yes their troubles began if you are an agent you have to get work if you are a studio you have to sell this idea to all of your compatroits.if you are a producer you should go get some studios interested in making this movie if they say no you just go to lunch one of my professor friend told me that they pick young people to go to war one reason is because they don't think they are gonna die it's the same thing you think you are gonna survice you are not gonna fail after a while just realise you are luck to be standing after a wave of machine gun bullets most of us have pushing very hard against the wall we've been pushing and pushing for so long when it suddenly disapears we fall into space that's a defination of sucess when i wrote alien i'm live in hollywood live on livingroom counch we got fifteen thousand dollars money we said that's a lot of money as soon as i graduate i wrote two or three scripts with my partner the second was the last action hero being part of that kind of when your agent is calling they just bid one hundred thousand they just bid for two hundred thousand it's like winning lottery for something you actually did the first day there were sixty bids at that time and i dedicde i better write as fast as hard as i can now wrote hardcore just try to knock these things out as quickly as i could i learned early i can't write anything not about me about my exprience about my needs fears desires whatever his issues have to be issues i care about personly i would make a lot of money if i'm a good listener somebody said i would pay you three million dollar to write script about alien star i can't do it i want your money but i don't know how it's not my exprience that big paycheck on two occasion it's bigger than anybody receive for screen play in history taking me out for a few years not letting me enjoy a my work, or b contiue to produce the level i was scared it can freeze you it's hard to find shawshank everytime when make movie if it's easy everybody would be making shawshank first movie nominated for best picture sceenplay the idea is to not to let it be those things,maybe you shouldn't even try i decide to keep smoking my ass until it get to my head that's a lot of smoke that come at you if you start to believe you can't be creative you start listenning you think that's the big thing you can get into you got all the answers you got all the exprience in the world it doesn't matter whether you win or lose for ninty minutes you have to have a win that's because i have been a who think he is gonna be in business for ninty years four sequeal to that movie obviously i was wrong we wrote a movie called that's a great rejection we offen laugh at a lot of meeting make a billion dallars worldwide we got something here we wrote this scipt we love it it's black comedy just very dark we love it it gonna hit the market someone's gonna buy it we went out how luck american was to get this movie we count the money we have someone take a picture of us guess what no one was interested Nobody gives you credit for the previous time at bat you were so great yesterday they will let you go to the first space with having to go to play no, you have to get a hit every time you're up. when we went in look you haven't seen this you havn't seen it about a professional woman looking for love it's been a while let's do it not big box office let's get something new going on inspire an alien it took me eight years to get it total made maybe i have a director i couldn't get an actor i have an actor i couldn't get a director this went on for eight years I think in the film business there is never one break-through moment, there is a series of moments. my fifth script that caught me a lot of attention from there i get hired to do a couple of jobs here and there and then my first real big break i think was when we got air force one on the ground i sent script to harrison fort he said yes at certain points i want you to make enough in box office that's your reputation you have a reputation as a money maker if you want to continue to work told me he made god father he said i can for year from now he was wrong he can for years life become easy i get kind of disgusted about myself because i wasn't writing much i wasn't writing well and one day i woke up i was lying in bed thinking of it i got a piece of paper,wrote on the top a list of things to do before kick the box number one get to make a studio find a perfect woman convince her that i'm not and get her to marry me i wrote the whole story of bucket list a list of thing they want to do with short time they have left our studio said no one of them said we get this in the right hand this could get done who you want to show this who would it be bob reiner made pretty good movies three days later he called up hello i've read thirty pages of these thing if it's good with you it's gonna be my next movie i have written the movie with 's voice in my head rob got mogan's number called him up we got a script you should read we are glad said yes we've been talking about who would play the other character we have a list of usual suspects,a bunch of names we never sure who it would be said jacknicholson and i have talked about wanting to work together if i have a bucklist working with jacknicholson would be on that list what are you gonna say to that sent the script to jack a week later he called yeah i'll do it i shuold look at my face descript what that's like the greatest day in my life was september 3th 2006 i got married in new york next morning i woke up at five up kiss her goodbye flew to sanfrancisco i walked in i sat down on his dinningroom table it was me moganfreeman rob reiner jack nicholson the first scene was two actors talk to each other it's absolutely the most undescripable feeling it was perfect crazy enough it's a year to the day that just doesn't happen i was working in my way it was a one man show someone want your idea in the screenplay but they want you to rewrite it they can't screw around with it until you turn in your version then they could do it but now it's a whole different story the film studio used to be run by people who are in film business who have been producers who have been agents who knew the game the ups and downs in the game but that all changes in the early 80s when came from abc over to paramout he brought and the whole concept of market research the studio hate the idea they had to take the about what's gonna make money if you talk about studio if you are interested in story in new made motion i found that really boring and bit of a cheat the movie that make me become a writer are ordinary people toosie network rocky all the great stuff from the 70s fiddlers on the roof jaws the god father the greatest movie ever all the president'smen those are impossible to make now ordinary people wouldn't get paid anymore it will a live time television movie it's not kinds of things studios are doing those are kinds of things i start my career doing those are kinds of things that i think the people are still hungry for pirate of carabeen 8 probablly on the way and i understand it spiderman i get it they are gonna keep coming coming i go to meeting where they say we love the power of this thing where your leading lady says they kill my best friend they betrayed me they'll pay really appealing characterer do we have to kill that person could that person just be injuried that's a sort of like different thing when says i swear to god i'll never be hungry again you don't say i swear to god i'll neve miss lunch the cost is so terrifying i remember when i started we had powerfull director paul newman was the biggest star in the world i think the movie cost if you are gonna make a movie today with willsmith let's say a named director you are talking about that's if you are lucky that's one of the biggest changes everything is fucking expensive and it's getting worse it's hard to belive what's going on the water is rising being in the right place at the right time your idea have to be powerfull enough,that will carry you along the business changes you can complain about it that's what i do just look at that number right around your head they are gonna make ten a year twelve a year so where are all those scripts going they are going nowhere a movie that cost seventy eighty a hundred million dallar just to make is gonna cost another hundred dollar to promote that's two hundred million dollar risk so of course everybody is nervous everybody is gonna secondguess everything it's miracles movie comes out and give different points of view i think the public will be shocked to see how many movies end up terrific start as pretty good sceenplay these screenplay it's kind of funny it's kind of silly it was stupid but it's charming the action is really coolin the process of what they do to script it get chopped mashed and turned out there are very few development executives producers who could really sit down and write a script and tell a story they don't really mean to jerk they didn't mean to be stupid they try to get something i remembe one moment in a meeting with people basicly told us two things in the script ok we can give you that but i just want you to know you just ask for two opposite things no it's not opposite she's supposed to be here in the world of living things this can't actually be Your job being on the receiving end of a 'good idea' in a development meeting, is to handle this turd as if it was a piece of gold. i can make my comment that i have that's the whole day waiting for that comment to come around so they can say that day that comment means nothing are you insane shutup to them that's their day with a comment that's the job for that day to say that this executive in your meeting she's been frustratied every movie come out of this process turn out to some kind of movie entainta boy he try to elevate the material then you have the person who's like who wants to show off in the meeting all the stuff is going on you want them to have a good meeting that's the whole thing there one thing you can do is you can go there if they can say anything in the meeting they can say any idea are doing something they are doing something they want to mess up their money they try to fool people they try to tick people they got great suitcase for i write that down used to be two people coming to a meeting and work on script with you now eight people come to work on your script they all yellow pad they all got opinion most of their opinions are bad they can't judge anything it's original or different they can only relate to something they see before they haven't been some other movie it's unfimiliar to them it got to be wrong i heard about a study somebody was doing about a perfect painting judged on question they were asked potential painting lovers across the world they would have a landscape they would have an animal somewhere in the front they would have a beautiful girl we just have these elements some audience came together based on and did that painting which was of course horrible painting that's kind of a way generously hollywood work through you need a dog what about a love story it's warmly let's have a love story you have these idiots i doesn't move it's too constructed sometime you just need to break off all that you need to mess up a little bit and try to i don't go to the operating room i think you should cut a little more to the left on the street corner will tell you what they feel was wrong about spiderman 3 they have opinion and if they went to yale or they can beat the studio and they can have their job the job is half having lunch and the other half is to go to meeting and getting paid to say spiderman was bad because it is sometime you got to know they says all the thing is boring can we put a car chase the scene is the quiet emotonal scene you intend to be emotional it's boring that means you might not have done your work seting up character's relationship 20 30 40 pages earlier you can completely disagree on two points within the framework of one grand vision of a moive if one person says it's a comedy oen person says it's a drama that's a little different we are making a comedy we are gonna make the funnist commedy ever made but i think this is funnier no i think this is funnier you know that that's the creative process i did a film for disney it was an idea they had it was a one word idea they say shawdows i came up with an idea about a guy who shadow a life he likes the girl he works with try to get humanbeing together i was happy with it i wrote this script and disney said it is really good it's a love story what we really want is a movie i can imagine your shadow with eddiemofia that's interesting that's completely not what i wrote i used to get notes someone says i need to do some work i used to get a note let's change the i used to try to make everyone happy so someone said i didn't like something and had a suggetion i will immediately try to that suggestion they are not hiring you because they want to tell you what to do as a screen writer they usually hire you because they need you opinion even someone sitting there saying i don't want to hear you opinion they do want to hear your opinion that's why you are there you need to fight through this some people have to go with the flow the flow will push you right out of door When I was a young man... in the business, I believed that my opinion was absolutely right and that I had the right answer to all questions. With age and experience I learned that I was right on all those occasions, but that there are several right answers to all occasions. The most important thing in a screenwriter's arsenal is this: Wear flats. You never want to be taller than whoever the producer is... and you are already. I'm just telling you right now; I don't have to do the statistics; I don't need a double-blind study. All the screenwriters are taller, in general, than all the producers. 'Always sit on the couch,' that's my advice to wannabe writers when they get in there. Don't take the big chair. Let the producer or the director take that. everything in my mind is based in relationship you built the relationship doing the work and come up with great idea somtime it doesn't click for whatever reason it's those ralationship you built with the producer at the base level they are gonna know you are the goal to dial for the next project the guy that someone like to work with who's handy who happen to be on the phone rope at that day and gets the call the relationship is really important is that a bad thing if you are not in the circle it can be extremely frustrating you have to know how to read the people you are with it's like he had to know who his partner is