Friday, March 04, 2005

Just Get On With It!

Nathan has the ability to cut through the bullshit. I've always told him he'd be a great movie producer. Upon pitching him Projected, "Let's do that. I love it. What does Justin think?" Me, "He loves it." Nat, "So why aren't we doing that?"

Good question.

The reason we aren't doing it is I keep coming up with new ideas and so, rather than take the plunge, let's wait and see if the next script turns out to be better. Nathan is absolutely right - we're justing making up excuses not to make a movie. Right now.

I can keep on writing for the rest of my life, waiting for that perfect script to come along. But the perfect script never comes along, because they don't exist. See, being "movie-buffs", me and Justin watch a movie and then usually pick the thing apart. We're looking for holes. And we do the same to our scripts. Which is part of the development process. But at some point someone has to say, "OK, enough development. Just get on with it!"

Which is where Nathan comes in.

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