It'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 HelgelandIn exchange for ten years of being on top, I'm gonna end up in prison or I'm gonna end up dead, and there's something fascinating about that.
Brian HelgelandIf 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 HelgelandI worked as hard to write the worst film of the year as I did to write the best film of the year.
Brian Helgeland