"No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment"
- Ronald Harwood
About this Quote
This quote by Ronald Harwood is referring to the process of composing treatments for movies. A treatment is a file that describes the story of a movie, consisting of the characters, plot, and setting. Harwood is warning versus writing treatments, as he thinks that it can lead to a loss of the preliminary interest and enjoyment for the job. He believes that when a treatment is composed, it can be hard to preserve the very same level of enthusiasm and enjoyment that was present when the concept was first developed. Harwood is recommending that it is much better to keep the idea in its initial type, rather than attempting to record it in a written file. This way, the idea can remain fresh and amazing, and the author can continue to be influenced by it.
"I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great"
"The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature"
