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11-16-2009, 08:46 PM
The Hollywood Reporter: How does today's reality of the film business stack up with your expectations when you first flirted with becoming a screenwriter?
Nick Hornby: I'm not sure I'm entirely representative because I have another job. All I can say is that, I don't know how you guys stick with it. I was constantly on the verge of packing it in because it seemed utterly pointless. Books are pretty straightforward by comparison. You write a book and your editor wants to help you with it and then he wants to publish it. And that's it! That's the whole process.
Mark Boal: It helps if you're Nick Hornby.
Hornby: It does strengthen your career if you've written three, four books. Whereas it doesn't matter who you are when you're writing a movie. There's still the same very slim percentage chance that the film will get made. I did endless drafts and at the end of each one we seemed no closer to anything. And I thought, nah. I wrote two books while I was writing "An Education," and they've both been published. It would drive me crazy to do what you guys do.
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Nick Hornby: I'm not sure I'm entirely representative because I have another job. All I can say is that, I don't know how you guys stick with it. I was constantly on the verge of packing it in because it seemed utterly pointless. Books are pretty straightforward by comparison. You write a book and your editor wants to help you with it and then he wants to publish it. And that's it! That's the whole process.
Mark Boal: It helps if you're Nick Hornby.
Hornby: It does strengthen your career if you've written three, four books. Whereas it doesn't matter who you are when you're writing a movie. There's still the same very slim percentage chance that the film will get made. I did endless drafts and at the end of each one we seemed no closer to anything. And I thought, nah. I wrote two books while I was writing "An Education," and they've both been published. It would drive me crazy to do what you guys do.
Click here for the full interview: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i15e6314384dccfe3898e28d6694f6333