At the beginning, everything's possible and everybody gets equal time, all the characters, all the ideas. You don't know who's going to be the main characters; they're all fighting it out. It's like kind of the best time in a way.
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“The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.”
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