Can you sue yourself for plagiarism? If so, then 'Old School' has presented Ivan Reitman with a case.
'Sabotage' was a work for hire. It wasn't my original idea or script or anything.
Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I've ever faced since I started writing.
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
Whoever my films are about, they'll hopefully still have my sensibility, whatever that is.
For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it's all manufactured.
Even in 'The OA,' we had to follow Guild requirements and put 'directed by' and the credits, and I'm embarrassed to put my name every time. I mean, who cares. Look it up on the Internet if you want to know who made it.
Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind.
