'I have a vision'

That's what Paul Wolframm said was the most important aspect of being a director. Part of being a visionary is being ready for people that shit on your vision and tell you to compromise. It's happened all along the way for me: I wrote Portrait of a Knight with a largely unsympathetic group of people telling me not to waste my time with musicals, my Mum reamed me out about These Words Are Meant For Someone, and I literally had Parliamentary Services tell me to stop making the Dakumentary. Sure, everyone's on-board with the Dakumentary now, but that wasn't my experience until my edit was really solid. That's what it means to cling to a vision, so be prepared. Those tapes that I was producing in Central Park are essentially the reason that I get to call my own shots and make my own decisions, as I thought out loud and shot down various theoretical legal attempts to force me into decisions that I disagreed with. ✊ - Watching Sunset Boulevard (again). Great film: Sondheim was a fan, and attempted to adapt into a musical until Wilder himself told him at a party that it was a bad idea. - As for my Weeded Out scripts: no, I'm not producing them and please stop insisting when you literally have a 0% stake in those screenplays. If SPADA wants to produce my stuff, then fucking well email me. They're 100% my property, and I'd rather do a book version. If I had my druthers and infinite funds, I'd probably make it into a comic book.