Michael B. Jordan

Do you ever tell yourself, the writer, hey man, don't sweat this.

I'm just going to ditch it.

Yeah.

I find for myself with writing, there are times where it's very difficult not to be precious with the words, to remember, to convince yourself.

Just put it on paper.

So much of writing is rewriting.

Right.

And you can really hold yourself back from even putting it out there.

Do you know what I mean?

Like, we´ll write to the point where, like, hey, man, there´s an audience out there, and they look mad.

They´ve been sitting there for five hours.

You better get out there and do a show.

But as a writer of film, how do you stop?

How do you not overwrite?

Okay, what do you... No, we have a different system here.

Once it's done, then you have all the post-production and all those other things that you have to do.

Does the selling of it feel like you're making something that you did a long time ago?

Does it still feel vital in your mind?

Like, how does it in that process?

I would love for M. Night Shyamalan to be in one of his own movies and be like, oh, my God, that guy was dead the whole time?