Brian Helgeland Quotes
Its such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, Action! Its like being a little mini-god.
Its as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.
I worked as hard to write the worst film of the year as I did to write the best film of the year.
As much as I love period movies and especially more swashbuckling movies, I think that sometimes they tend to be, umm... it's hard for the audience to relate to them.
If Im in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?
I think test screenings with an audience are useful because they have no dog in the fight, they just say how they feel.
In exchange for ten years of being on top, I'm gonna end up in prison or I'm gonna end up dead, and there's something fascinating about that.
I think writing is a difficult thing and you need to suffer a little bit, even if it's just to sit there and think what an idiot you are and how anyone else could do this better than you can.
Because I've been at it so long and very steadily, I have a lot of credits, but I probably have twice as many scripts that were never made for whatever reason.
In my own experience, the scripts that I wrote, if they didn't go within two years and become a film, they never went and no one ever came looking for them.
It's always once the script's done in the first two years if it doesn't get going somehow or another, I've never had an old script that someone's made later on.
I know a lot of directors have a whole staff of people trying to find their next film for them. I always just end up writing mine.