In 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 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 HelgelandI think writing is a difficult thing and you need to suffer a little bit, even if it's just to sit there and think what an idiot you are and how anyone else could do this better than you can.
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