I've learned that everything is a slow process in the TV and movie industry.
Many people have been able to get pitch meetings by just cold calling, especially the smaller networks and especially with the reality shows.
I hated pitch meetings. Pitch meetings were my least favorite part of the week. I just gave up. I was so terrible at them.
It's just hard to get an independent film made.
I found myself trying to work within the Los Angeles system. I had an agent and a manager, which I still do, and going to meetings with networks about game shows and reality shows and projects that weren't mine. It was fun, but it wasn't what I'd set out to do.
It is so hard to get movies made in Hollywood that you got to have six going at once, and you know, probably none of those get made.
When I first started out and would go on pitch meetings, there was always this kind of eye-roll that would come with pitching a horror movie when you were dealing with the studios. Unless it was viewed as a cheap product that could turn a lot of profit, there wasn't a lot of interest in making it good.
I didn't understand that TV writing wasn't writing; it was pitching.
When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
I take a lot of pitches. Some guys hate to do that.
Basically if you're trying to write films in England you might as well decide to hide for two years. It's just meetings with people who don't really have any money but pretend they do.
TV tends to be like, if you're lucky, it's like Las Vegas. You can't get out. There's always another pitch meeting. They keep you on the casino floor. If I'm unlucky, if I'm lucky enough to be unlucky, I would love to write a movie.
