00:00The Martian was obviously very successful. Were you thinking this could be a film while you were
00:05writing it and consequently were you fan casting in your head? No, I wasn't. So I try to enforce
00:12the strict rule when I'm writing is that my job is to write a book. If somebody wants to make
00:15a
00:15movie out of it later, that's great. It becomes Drew Goddard's problem to adapt it or some other
00:20talented screenwriter. It's not my problem to make a movie. And I always tell aspiring authors,
00:26if you want to write a movie, write a screenplay, write a movie. But if you're writing a book,
00:31write a book and take advantage of all the things you can do in a book that you can't do
00:35in a movie.
00:35Lots of detail, lots of changes in story, lots of plot twists,
00:39things that would take 10 hours worth of movie time to show.
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