Film Commission drama

I'm getting the very distinct sense that people think that I should be grateful that the NZ Film Commission wants to meet with me, even though the project that they wanted me to pitch was something that I'd said I wouldn't do.

I mean, I'm sorry, but aren't you familiar with the words cease and desist? - I think their actions were a lot of bullshit, and totally turned me off from pitching again. Put another way, it shouldn't have been fair for them to use the wānanga as a pawn. I've called out VUW for doing that as well, so don't say that I'm singling out Ainsley.

You know, you could always meet me at Parliament... - Plus, this is whole 'oh, now that we've seen your childhood photos, we realise that you were really serious about that Italian movie' is a load of shit. While having reference material is an obvious boon for production, it doesn't really solve the problem of scripting it. Right now I'm going for a stroll through memory lane, and it's not really a goal of mine to wrap up that script in 6 months or a year. That's something I want to do when I'm older and more mature. It'd cost a few million, and that's not something they're going to give me based on my cannabis documentary. - Like, I realise that I have acquaintances who are writers and work for the NZFC, but I'm fairly convinced that going through script development with them would result in a boring movie that hews closely to whatever template that they have in mind. Plus, how many of them have written a script for a feature that got produced? I'd rather not have producer's notes if the notes are that 'this sucks, do it our way.'