Interviews

The Spec Script Library

Screenwriter : Peter Watts

Peter Watts
Bunbury, Western Australia

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What is your passion?
To be able to create emotion.

What is your pride?
My first feature film script.

What is your greatest fear?
To not be discovered.

What does adversity do to you?
Makes me try harder.

What is your best quality?
My ability to try harder.

What is your worst quality?
My ability to try harder.

What irksome habits do you have?
I repeat myself.

If you could have your time again, what would you do that is different?
I would have included dinosaurs in my script and given it to
Steven Speilberg before the other John Criton (??) did.

What would you like to change about yourself?
I’d like to know the 'right' people.

About others?
I’d like those people to know me.

How important is goal setting to you?
If I do not achieve a goal then I have failed.
I do not like to fail.

What goals do you have?
To write a script and have a major movie director make it into a film.
Then for it to be a success.

What is your ultimate goal?
To have someone out there recognise me for my work as a script writer and watch my films because they would have heard of me.

What heroes do you have?
Anyone who has made it in life is a hero.

What inspires you in others?
When they put trust in me to do something.

What inspires you in yourself?
When I do that something the very best I can.

What will be written on your headstone?
He didn't change the world…but he came close.

What does success mean to you?
Everything.

How do you measure success?
In how much people look up to you.
(not counted if your naturally a tall person)

What are your pet hates?
My pet doesn't hate anything... Oh, I hate it when someone tries to make a silly joke and doesn't pull it off.

What are your pet loves?
My pet loves me... Oh, I love it when I try to make a silly joke
and I pull it off.

What do you think of pets?
They're nice... at a distance.

When are you happiest?
When I finish this questionnaire... hehehehe

When are you hardest to please?
When someone has just read my script and says
"That's good"

What's the most exhilarating thing you have done?
Walking up to a strange woman and kissing her, then running.

What has been your most embarrassing moment?
When she caught up to me the next day.

What is it about screen writing that gets your fired?
The ability to play God with the characters and then to convince
the audience that it can happen.

What screenplays have you written?
Brittle, 5th Street, Corrosion, Never and Always,
Any Kind of Man

What is your favourite pastime?
Writing screen plays.

What is your favourite motto?
"Brittle things will break before they turn".

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