Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
PRASAD PAUL DUFFY: Ah-hah. [Laughs]
TRIP: Besides the entire population of Los Angeles [Laughs]. And
I don't know, I won't get into the details of my screenplay, but it's
about the true nature of consciousness, about gurus, about… I feel
like I can do a very imaginative job of bringing a lot of interesting
elements, using the blockbuster action film format, okay. So I feel
like I know I've got work to do, I would have to storyboard the
idea, and I’d have to put it into marketable form. But I'm not
interested in making money from something like that, but what I
want to do is I want to know how is it that I can take my idea and
find a collaborator who would probably be another writer, who has
film industry experience, find someone trustable that I can share
my idea with who isn't going to rip it off and run with it, and I
don't get to enjoy the creative process or whatever. What's your
advice on that, finding a collaborator who could help bring a piece
of creative work to somebody?
PRASAD PAUL DUFFY: Well the odds are in your favor, there are
125 million people [Laughs], to find a collaborator. I've done it
many times, many people have approached me through the years
with ideas, if it resonated with me, and I would take the project on.
I had a 50/50 rule that I would want to do, if I was going to
develop, and write it, and shop it, and produce it, you know. And
then I've done the same with my projects, the TV project I've given
50/50 to my co-producer, because he's the one who's shopping it,
getting us into the big agencies, and he has a famous director to
direct it, and stuff like that.
So it's all about what people bring to the table, and the resonance
you have with them, and if you believe they can protect your work,
as they shop it around, because it does need to be protected,
screenplays are stolen all the time. My friends wrote an amazing
one, and it was stolen by the Heroes series. So you have to protect
yourself there. But I would recommend to you that, to not go for
big budget for your first outing, if you want to actually produce it
to do it low budget with the video in HD, things can be done for so
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