I think test screenings with an audience are useful because they have no dog in the fight, they just say how they feel.
Brian HelgelandBecause I've been at it so long and very steadily, I have a lot of credits, but I probably have twice as many scripts that were never made for whatever reason.
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 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