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Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.

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Steven Zaillian

I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies.

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When I am writing I don't set a certain number of pages. I do know that the further into a script I get the faster it goes. As soon as you start making decisions you start cutting off all of the other possibilities of things that could happen. So with every decision that you make you are removing a whole bunch of other possibilities of where that story can go or what that character can do. So when I get maybe 2
3's of the way through I can see very clearly where it is going to go.

Character, Cutting, Happen, Making, Script, Writing

I have a few things that I have written over the years that haven't been made, but I sort of feel like there was a good reason why they were not made. So I am not anxious to go back and fix them. I don't have something in the desk drawer that I think, "The time is right now. If I just do this, it'll be great. " It is kind of out of sight and out of mind. I am thinking ahead rather than back.

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People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles. . . it's a small percentage.

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You do a draft and you get more notes. You start to get the feeling that this either isn't going to happen or it is going to take a really long time to happen, and I never felt that with this [the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo].

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I have no problem with anyone being precise about small things.

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