I think so many plays today stem from a notion rather than an idea.
There's a great difference."
The problem for Hollywood is that if a contemporary woman is allowed to be "aggressive" in Hollywood terms, she must either be what they consider unattractive physically, or a neurotic bitch like Faye Dunaway in Network (1976).
Film is a director's medium. The screenplay is second in importance.
I did a film in which the director did not change a word or a scene - but the director was so terrible, the result was unrecognizable.