"They have started to write screenplays that include interesting roles for Chinese and other Asian women.
(His vocation, or at least his way to make money, was to write screenplays that were not filmed).
And screenplays that make bosom friendships out of once bitter, and later superficially pleasant, relationships are more marketable.
Like many playwrights, he has supplemented his income by writing and doctoring screenplays that never got filmed.
Goldman then produced a series of screenplays that focused on such historical couples as Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) and Robin and Marian (1976).
More lately, I knew, he'd devolved to the B-list, thanks to a series of screenplays that resulted in product shipped directly to Forest Lawn.
The production is the first in a BBC Radio 4 season of screenplays that failed to see the light of day.
"I told him, that I was writing all these screenplays that weren't getting produced, and that it was like giving birth to dead babies," Mr. Cuarón explained.
"They left us because they were working on screenplays that belonged to other studios, but the minute they started on original work again, they have come back".
Later, Ephron would take elements from her own life and fashion them into screenplays that would typify the genre that became known as the romcom.
Despite this starry upbringing, Lumet has spent the past 15 years quietly writing screenplays that have never been produced - until now.
