Daniel Whiteson

Nobody wants to read your screenplay.

I know.

I hear you.

It's a common feeling that your stuff is not getting enough attention.

I feel the same way.

Most of my grants that I submit to the US government are rejected.

Do I think that's a mistake?

Yes, absolutely I do.

But I don't blame it on jealousy or gatekeeping or whatever.

It's a marketplace of ideas.

It's an imperfect, absolutely it's an imperfect marketplace.

The same way that there are probably great screenplays out there in drawers in Los Angeles that nobody's producing that would be incredible, right?

I'm sure that's true.

There's great screenplays in drawers right here, Daniel.

Somebody should make your movie.

It's imperfect, but it's gotten us pretty far.

And I think the most important thing to remember is

you know, people are operating in good faith.

Scientists are just busy, curious people like you, you know, um,

There's no time to read everybody's theory, the same way that Jerry Bruckheimer can't read every single screenplay, right?