If you write an original, its like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, its like the oil wells on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again - or something like that.
Brian HelgelandIts as boring to see a completely evil villain as it is to see a completely good guy.
Brian HelgelandFor me in a film, almost every scene you end up cutting a bit of the start of it out, and some of the end of it out because there's always...once you've rehearsed it and shot it, it feels like a couple of times and you can always get out sooner.
Brian HelgelandIn 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.
Brian Helgeland