10th March 2017 | for Creatives | mystery, film, fantasy, thriller, Ray Bradbury, film based on novel, screenwriting, Jack Clayton |
"I had a 260-page screenplay [for Something Wicked This Way Comes]. That's six hours. [Director] Jack [Clayton] said, 'Well, now you've got to cut out forty pages.' I said, 'God, I can't.' He said, 'Go ahead, I know you can do it. I'll be behind you.' So I cut forty pages out. He said, 'Okay, now you've got to cut another forty pages out.' I got it down to 180 pages, and then Jack said, 'Thirty more.' I said, 'Impossible, impossible!' Okay, I got it down to 150 pages. And Jack said, 'Thirty more.' Well, he kept telling me I could do it, and, by God, I went through a final time and got it down to 120 pages. It was better."
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