But the longer I'm in the business, you see a lot of times these screenplays have been rewritten 5 times and you're not really offending an author.
Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
Not every script that rolls in is ready to shoot. Few are, actually. So you go back and work on the thing.
Every script always goes through rewrites so that everyone loves it.
When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.
When I finally finished writing 'Sisters,' I started getting hired for lots of rewrites.
I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla;' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it.
You have to constantly work on your script if it needs it. You don't accept, 'Oh, I did a draft and...' No, it's your responsibility to work on the script as much as possible and make it better and better.
