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  • Brian Helgeland Quote - If you write an original, its like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, its like the oil wells on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again – or something like that.
  • Brian Helgeland Quote - If you write an original, its like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, its like the oil wells on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again – or something like that.
  • Brian Helgeland Quote - If you write an original, its like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, its like the oil wells on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again – or something like that.
  • Brian Helgeland Quote - If you write an original, its like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, its like the oil wells on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again – or something like that.
  • Brian Helgeland Quote - If you write an original, its like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, its like the oil wells on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again – or something like that.
  • Brian Helgeland Quote - If you write an original, its like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, its like the oil wells on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again – or something like that.
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If you write an original, its like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, its like the oil wells on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again – or something like that.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Helgeland Quote - If you write an original, its like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, its like the oil wells on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again – or something like that.

    If you write an original, its like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, its like the oil wells on fire, and they bring you in to put the fire out and get it working again – or something like that.

    BRIAN HELGELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Helgeland Quote - For me in a film, almost every scene you end up cutting a bit of the start of it out, and some of the end of it out because there’s always…once you’ve rehearsed it and shot it, it feels like a couple of times and you can always get out sooner. Download This Image

    For me in a film, almost every scene you end up cutting a bit of the start of it out, and some of the end of it out because there’s always…once you’ve rehearsed it and shot it, it feels like a couple of times and you can always get out sooner.

    BRIAN HELGELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Helgeland Quote - Its such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, Action! Its like being a little mini-god.

    Its such an egotistical thing to be able to just stand there and say, Action! Its like being a little mini-god.

    BRIAN HELGELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Helgeland Quote - It’s always once the script’s done in the first two years if it doesn’t get going somehow or another, I’ve never had an old script that someone’s made later on.

    It’s always once the script’s done in the first two years if it doesn’t get going somehow or another, I’ve never had an old script that someone’s made later on.

    BRIAN HELGELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Helgeland Quote - As much as I love period movies and especially more swashbuckling movies, I think that sometimes they tend to be, umm… it’s hard for the audience to relate to them. Download This Image

    As much as I love period movies and especially more swashbuckling movies, I think that sometimes they tend to be, umm… it’s hard for the audience to relate to them.

    BRIAN HELGELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Helgeland Quote - I think there’s something strange about writing a script I’ve written many, many scripts – dozens and dozens of scripts – and every time I start one, I think to myself: ‘why in the world do I think I know how to do this?’

    I think there’s something strange about writing a script I’ve written many, many scripts – dozens and dozens of scripts – and every time I start one, I think to myself: ‘why in the world do I think I know how to do this?’

    BRIAN HELGELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Helgeland Quote - Because I’ve been at it so long and very steadily, I have a lot of credits, but I probably have twice as many scripts that were never made for whatever reason. Download This Image

    Because I’ve been at it so long and very steadily, I have a lot of credits, but I probably have twice as many scripts that were never made for whatever reason.

    BRIAN HELGELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Helgeland Quote - If Im in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?

    If Im in the bookstore, and I see a 700-page novel, my first thought is, Ooh, how could you cut this down to size and make a movie out of it?

    BRIAN HELGELAND
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Brian Helgeland Quote - In exchange for ten years of being on top, I’m gonna end up in prison or I’m gonna end up dead, and there’s something fascinating about that.

    In exchange for ten years of being on top, I’m gonna end up in prison or I’m gonna end up dead, and there’s something fascinating about that.

    BRIAN HELGELAND