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“[m not eager to sell my work outright. I want to participate. I want to direct film — to extend myself by directing. I have no intention of giving up performing. My writing was originally supposed to fill the bill when I wasn’t acting. Now I use the writing for some good reasons, not the least of which is staying sane. Now! want to extend that thread by directing.”
These desires notwithstanding, Pinsent has cut back on his other activities to concentrate on his writing. He stopped A Gift to Last and has turned down other work in order not to repeat himself and go back to the old patterns. He is a dedicated, disciplined writer.
But he worries that the artists — and performers — have no control over the industry they give so much to; that quality is all too often determined by producers and
accountants who have little interest in the quality of a film.
They’re avoiding the material.
“It frightens me that it’s completely out of our control. In this country, you can be wildly congratulated for things that you’ve done, and turn right around the following morning and you can’t get arrested! You’ve got to go out and do it all again yourself!
“The producers who say there’s a lack of material in this country are avoiding the issue. Theyre avoiding the material. There’s a whole raft of producers out there who
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don’t need to find good material. If they do, fine...But in the meantime, I have the spookiest idea that if you were one hell of a screenwriter, and you had great ideas, they could avoid you — go around you — and get on with their plans, which don’t include you or your good writing.
“The sad thing will be when we round up all our films and we won't have said anything about ourselves. We don’t try our best. Americans expect a lot of themselves, they demand a lot of themselves, and they try their best. Well, we also try their best. :
“The things that are happening in this country are not getting us a satisfying image for film. We don’t even havea good name in Hollywood right now.
“But we can be as good as anyone anywhere. The crews, the technicians, are wonderful! They're ready, they're interested — these guys are working!
“Our talent has been doing the same thing, but in more of an underground, a commando way. They haven’t been getting the same kind of opportunities the crews have been getting.
“Performers in this country, performers anywhere, have avery tough job. A character actor becomes more interesting with age, but a leading man between jobs just waits. And those jobs are not coming too quickly in this country.
“So not only do they lose the continuity of experience, but by the time they do work again they'll probably be too old to learn lines, and they'll have to go to the bathroom a lot, and you know that'll play hell with the budget!
“If our performers get good roles, they'll get the recogni