[Watch the video interview on YouTube here]
Film Courage: Do you ever give up on a screenplay?
Nick Morton, Writer/Producer: I don’t think I’ve ever given up on a screenplay, which is crazy.
It’s so funny to have you ask me that question because I can’t believe I have never given up on a screenplay.
That is nuts.
I should have given up on lots of screenplays, but I think if I started it, it’s because there was something about it that excited me.
The exciting thing about a screenplay to some degree to me is the puzzle.
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How do you make the puzzle work?
And I just don’t get bored.
I get determined to make the puzzle work.
I will just go and go and go.
I’ll walk up and down this street just puzzling it out, puzzling it out, puzzling it out until I have it.
Sometimes the solution is imperfect and I recognize it’s imperfect, but it solves the problem enough to keep going.
I think that writing anything is an act of faith for me.
To start, you have to believe that you can finish.
I guess if I didn’t believe I could finish, I would never start in the first place.
And before I ever start, I know how it ends.
I know where it’s going to…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
About:
Nick Morton has produced nearly 30 movies / tv series which include RAY (Jamie Fox, Regina King, Kerry Washington), SAHARA (Mathew McConaughey, Penelope Cruz, Steve Zahn) and COOPER’S BAR (Rhea Seehorn). Nick is also a standup comedian, author, and host of a podcast on addiction and recovery called The Drunkalogues.
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