I don't know who drew these caricatures but I was wondering if, unlike in real life, I have a tiny body under that massive head? Maybe I am wearing a garter belt and stockings, maybe plus fours and playing golf... or maybe that's Roger Michell?
When will we see the full, gory details? I wait with baited breath.
Meanwhile: I have stopped smoking and joined a gym, yet I remain overweight and out of breath. Mind you, I was a lot worse a while ago. Still, I feel like I'm coming down with something.
"A WRITER DOESN'T LIVE IN A BUBBLE"
The two scripts are beginning to flow. Where We Come From (thanks everyone for the suggested titles) is racing ahead, and we are already preparing workshops for our cast. And World Of Pain - the opus Steve Sheil and I are developing - is gaining strength and length and we are approaching a need for early feedback.
Feedback forms the bulk of what Steve and I debate and discuss in this new diary: a writer doesn't live in a bubble, and it's important for us to hear what producers and executive producers think of our work as they track the developing project.
There is a lot of talk about the poor artist versus the big bad world, and while I think that there is a noble thing there, it is also a massive myth. We ask for the money of investors, financiers and the rest to develop our scripts and allow us to spend more on the production of a feature film, and at the end of the day I want to make the damned movies! This is the process. It's important to keep perspective and remember that this is a communicative art form: you want people to see and understand what you are trying to do; it's not art for art's sake (in my case it's not art at all really).
But more importantly I also talk about mutilation and animal murder in this video diary... when I can get a word in.
Until next time... er... see ya!
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