"Throwing a Spear"

Director Noah Baumbach of the new film The Squid and the Whale had this to say on "The Treatment" last week. I'm paraphrasing...

"I read an interview with Ingmar Bergman where he said writing the first draft of a script is like throwing a spear into the woods." You know you have to say something but you're not quite sure what. So you just chuck. Successive drafts are about finding the spear."

I friggin love that. It makes the hardest part of writing (starting) seem like instinct rather than cleverness or a surprise vist by your muse.

I've got something brewing. I need to go throw.