And I will tell you as a writer, it’s amazing the difference in personality of the notes on the side of the page when it comes back from the, from the book company, from your editor. There are some notes you’re reading and you’re going, you said what? I’m, Lin, we’re not doing that, I cannot do that, that’s like meshuga, that’s crazy.
And then there are times when honest to god, you go wow that makes sense. Wow, we didn’t think of that, actually we could do that and then we rewrite the section and think it’s better.
So it’s a really welcome process, you know doing revisions when you’re working on a book. In television it’s not always so. So you have to be, when you work in television, you have to be a little more defensive otherwise you’ll wind up with something that’s created by 19 different people and doesn’t resonate with anyone.
Well, that is true, you have got to make instant decisions as an actor and a lot of times you just say wow, yeah, wow. And then do what you know is right. Because if you’re going to go down in flames, and this is as an actor, as a writer, if it’s not going to work then at least you want it not to work and your confident that you did what you thought was right.
If it goes down in flames and you gave in and it was against the very nature of your emotion, then you will never forget that as long as you live. You go if I only, if I only had just stuck up for it. If I only, I knew I was right about that, do you know what I mean? So you have to struggle to find the balance between the two.