One thing I know, after 30 years of doing this, is you can’t work it out while you shoot …
Now she has hit out at producers who rush films before scripts are finished, citing a lack of respect for writers and their work.
Emma Thompson may be best known as one of Britain’s finest actors but she is also an acclaimed writer, having won an Oscar for her Sense and Sensibility screenplay.
Thompson, whose screenwriting also includes the hit family film Nanny McPhee, said it was now common for films to begin shooting before the screenplays were ready.