1:04:00
Okay, thank you, thank you.
1:04:03
We have a long three days ahead.
1:04:05
Years from now, you'll be at a posh
cocktail party congratulating yourself...
1:04:10
...on how you spent a weekend with
an asshole from Hollywood for your art.
1:04:16
- I am pathetic. I am a loser.
- So...
1:04:19
...what is the substance of writing?
1:04:21
I have failed. I am panicked.
I have sold out. I am worthless.
1:04:25
L... What the fuck am I doing here?
1:04:28
What the fuck am I doing here? Fuck!
1:04:30
It is my weakness, my ultimate lack
of conviction that brings me here.
1:04:34
Easy answers,
rules to shortcut yourself to success.
1:04:37
And here I am because my jaunt
into the abyss brought me nothing.
1:04:40
Well, isn't that just the risk one takes
for attempting something new?
1:04:43
I should leave right now. I'll start over.
I need to face this project head-on...
1:04:47
And God help you if you use
voice-over in your work, my friends.
1:04:51
God help you.
It's flaccid, sloppy writing.
1:04:55
Any idiot can write voice-over narration
to explain the thoughts of the character.
1:04:59
Okay, that's it.
One hour for lunch.
1:05:05
You cannot have a protagonist
without desire.
1:05:08
It doesn't make any sense.
Any fucking sense.
1:05:12
You follow? Good.
1:05:15
Anyone else?
1:05:21
What if a writer is attempting to create
a story where nothing much happens?
1:05:26
Where people don't change,
they don't have any epiphanies.
1:05:29
They struggle and are frustrated,
and nothing is resolved.
1:05:33
More a reflection of the real world.
1:05:36
The real world?
1:05:38
Yes, sir.
1:05:39
The real fucking world.
1:05:42
First of all, you write a screenplay
without conflict or crisis...
1:05:45
...you'll bore your audience to tears.
1:05:48
Secondly, nothing happens in the world?
1:05:52
Are you out of your fucking mind?
1:05:56
People are murdered every day.
1:05:58
There's genocide, war, corruption.