Michael Reaves: Self
Quotes
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Michael Reaves : Most people become writers because they're very shy, quiet, retiring people, and they like to hunch behind their word processors and just type and tell their stories, they don't like to get out in the limelight.
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Michael Reaves : And yet when you sell the story, you got a, you know, it's a show, you got to put it on. You got to say "And this happens", and the dam breaks.
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Michael Reaves : So you have to pitch to somebody, a producer or a story editor who usually has 50,000 things on his mind. His attention span is, you know, like that of a Jack rabbit on Angel-dust anyway. And your trying to hold his attention by selling him a story that's better than the other 50 stories he's heard today, and which are all jumbled up in notes on his desk.
