1:04:02
We have a long three days ahead.
1:04:05
Years from now, you'll be at a posh
cocktail party congratulating yourself...
1:04:09
...on how you spent a weekend with
an asshole from Hollywood for your art.
1:04:15
-I am pathetic. I am a loser.
-So...
1:04:18
...what is the substance of writing?
1:04:20
I have failed. I am panick ed.
I have sold out. I am worthless.
1:04:24
I-- What the fuck am I doing here?
1:04:27
What the fuck am I doing here? Fuck!
1:04:29
It is my weakness, my ultimate lack
of conviction that brings me here.
1:04:33
Easy answers,
rules to shortcut yourself to success.
1:04:36
And here I am because my jaunt
into the abyss brought me nothing.
1:04:39
Well, isn't that just the risk one tak es
for attempting something new?
1:04:42
I should leave right now. I'll start over.
I need to face this project head-on--
1:04:46
And God help you if you use
voice-over in your work, my friends.
1:04:50
God help you.
lt's flaccid, sloppy writing.
1:04:54
Any idiot can write voice-over narration
to explain the thoughts of the character.
1:04:58
Okay, that's it.
One hour for lunch.
1:05:04
You cannot have a protagonist
without desire.
1:05:07
It doesn't mak e any sense.
Any fucking sense.
1:05:11
You follow? Good.
1:05:14
Anyone else?
1:05:21
What if a writer is attempting to create
a story where nothing much happens?
1:05:25
Where people don't change,
they don't have any epiphanies.
1:05:29
They struggle and are frustrated,
and nothing is resolved.
1:05:32
More a reflection of the real world.
1:05:35
The real world?
1:05:37
Yes, sir.
1:05:38
The real fucking world.
1:05:41
First of all, you write a screenplay
without conflict or crisis...
1:05:44
...you'll bore your audience to tears.
1:05:47
Secondly, nothing happens in the world?
1:05:51
Are you out of your fucking mind?
1:05:55
People are murdered every day.
1:05:57
There's genocide, war, corruption.