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On Digital & Streaming:March 23rd, 2007
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On DVD & Blu-ray:July 29th, 2008
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Original Language:English
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Dreams on Spec Quotes
The Challenge of Preserving Your Creative Voice
Gary Ross:
I think that it’s easy to give it away—give the definition of success away. Empower other people in determining whether you have talent. The catch-22 is that the more you do that the less you’ll be able to write. That’s the hard part – writing is all about the preservation of your own voice. So if you give that voice away by guessing what you think and you think and you think as you go, you’ll have less to say and then it’ll go away completely!
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Starting Over Under Pressure
Gary Ross: [[w:Dave (film)|Dave; [w:Michael Ovitz|Mike Ovitz]
Oh, I remember on ], I’d written a bad draft. I was on page 150 and climbing and I had no money then. ... I went home and I said to my wife that I needed to write it again because I wasn’t satisfied. So we took out a loan—a second mortgage on the house—to finish the script and ], who was a very powerful agent in Hollywood at the time was yelling at me to deliver the script to one of his very powerful clients ‘cause I was late. There was a huge amount of pressure. I literally threw away the first draft and started again from page one.
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