“Some of the drafts I wrote, if you would have showed them to a studio executive, they would have called an emergency meeting…That’s the nature of writing. You kind of have to get lost. You go down a bunch of wrong paths and then you find the right path.”
Screenwriter Robert D. Siegel on his script The Wrestler
Script magazine
Script to Screen article by David S. Cohen
This quote was pulled from my 2009 post Screenwriting Quote #17. Siegel, who was once an editor for The Onion, also wrote the recently released movie The Founder. He’s one gifted writer tackling difficult subjects and characters.