In a perfect world, my tennis game gets better. I have kids and a beautiful wife and live on some hill somewhere that's not in Los Angeles. And the script that Tom Hanks just barely turned down gets in my hands.
When I was 27, I won an honorable mention in a scriptwriting contest and got a television job as an assistant director.
The 'Pan' script made it to the Black List in 2013.
When there's a good script, everybody circles.
It'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.
I think if you get your fifth script made, that's the fast track. But there's no guarantee any of them will get made.
'West' is one of those scripts that, when it came out, everyone wanted a piece of it and everyone wanted to be involved in it.
If I write scripts that nobody likes, I don't think we'll be doing 'True Detective.'
In my own experience, the scripts that I wrote, if they didn't go within two years and become a film, they never went and no one ever came looking for them.
