Hollywood Tales

“I’ll tell you one thing I’ve noticed, and it’s absolutely true for me. My best writing has been on the the scripts I wrote as suicide notes to the industry — sort of, ‘Fuck you, guys, I’m outta here. This is the last script you’ll ever get from me. I’m tired of this. I’m going to put everything I know into this one and if you don’t buy it, ‘See ya!’ I’ve reached that point, I’d say, five or six times, maybe seven times; I’ve been so frustrated and pissed off, so self-blaming, so disgusted with what I’ve gotten myself into and the shame of what I had to do for a buck, that I said, ‘I’m getting out of the business after this one last piece of writing, something that expresses me, what I want.’ One of those scripts, by the way, was ‘Shakespeare In Love.’” 

 — by Marc Norman