Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life.
One doesn’t question a miracle.
When you make a movie, a dramatization based on the real experience of a living subject, you cant airbrush that away into to a perfect movie arc.
Keep your central character moving, discovering, learning.
I'm very lucky. I actually like screenwriting. I rarely feel a sense of doom going to my desk.
I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here.'