Ben Wheatley Quotes

Sometimes my scripts get so dissolved, and they're so different from when I wrote them originally, that I find it hard to find what I wrote in it.

Ben Wheatley

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• Sometimes my scripts get so dissolved, and they're so different from when I wrote them originally, that I find it hard to find what I wrote in it.

  

  Ben Wheatley
  • Different
  • Sometimes
  • Hard