Good things

The Hollywood Reporter's Borys Kit talks to screenwriter Pablo Fenjves about the ten years it took to get his script Man on a Ledge made into a movie. Says Fenjves:

"I jokingly say that this [movie] is a metaphor for the life of a Hollywood writer... You sell something that everybody is excited about, but the next thing you know they have notes, and they are basically slowly pushing you out onto a ledge. And then they hire other people. And then things happen to the script that you are not to happy about."

I like this story because Fenjves is 58:

"I'm 58 years old... and I don't mind having a movie made now because most guys are still talking about the movie they had made when they were 38... There's an old saying that says in Hollywood things come to those who wait. It's wrong. It's good things come to those who write."

Full story is here.