[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But. . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.
The first draft you're pretty much on your own, so I love that. I can let my imagination go wild. I just go crazy. Then, over the years - it takes years to write these things, to make these things come to pass - there are many, many, many drafts. For Maleficent, there were at least 15.