What's Your Process?
“I read the first 15 pages of every script a writer sends me. Here’s the thing I say in panels: Writers are blessed because it doesn’t matter what you look like. If you’re a good writer? Like, a really good writer? You can get an agent. You will. Actors don’t get that privilege. You can be the best goddamn actor in the world and not surpass actors with much less talent because you don’t look like you’d pull in box office numbers.”
- Talent Agent at CAA
My process began soon after birth when I became completely addicted to movies.
In 1996, I found a local University had a film program and new scripts. I took the bus across a snowy city, walked onto a campus I didn’t belong to with wet Sorels and gave them collateral to borrow their one copy of FARGO…
My process for writing has always been the same.
It’s the question I’m most frequently asked, so I’ll tell you how it works for me.