Over The Long Haul I'd Say That

Writing Is A Demanding Profession And A Selfish One. And Because It Is Selfish And Demanding, Because It Is Compulsive And Exacting, I Didn't Embrace It. I Succumbed To It.

I'd Rather Go Along With This Sense Of Illusion That I'm A Neutral Beast Going Along Through Life Doing Everything That's Preordained.

Whenever You Write, Whatever You Write, Never Make The Mistake Of Assuming The Audience Is Any Less Intelligent Than You Are.

I Don't Enjoy Any Of The Process Of Writing. I Enjoy It When It Goes On If It Zings And It Has Great Warmth And Import And It's Successful.

Essentially, The Scripts Are Not That Different. Let's Say, In Literary Terms, It's The Difference Between Writing Horizontally And Writing Vertically. In Live Television, You Wrote Much More Vertically. You Had To Probe People Because You Didn't Have Money Or Sets Or Any Of The Physical Dimensions That Film Will Allow You. So You Generally Probed People A Little Bit More. Film Writing Is Much More Horizontal. You Can Insert Anything You Want: Meadows, Battlefields, The Taj Mahal, A Cast Of Thousands. But Essentially, Writing A Story Is Writing A Story.