Its such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, Action! Its like being a little mini-god.
Brian HelgelandI worked as hard to write the worst film of the year as I did to write the best film of the year.
Brian HelgelandI think Cool Hand Luke was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy reads Paul Newman the riot act. The speech about going in the box.
Brian HelgelandIt'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.
Brian Helgeland