Life is simple when you are writing.

You sit down with pen and paper and laptop and then you just put one word down and another and another. Life is not simple when you are a writer, though. And it is unbearably difficult when you’re a talented screenwriter in Germany.

You see, we have it all. The funding, the education, the technical knowledge. We have a solid infrastructure and a social security net. We should be making great movies and sometimes we do.

But mostly we don’t.