In my screenplays - from the very beginning I've always used tape. I talk my screenplays. And then have somebody transcribe them.
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So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.
I had written for the theater and didn't know that I knew how to write for film. Ultimately, I think it's just trusting your voice, trusting your characters, and then telling them in a different medium.
Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.
I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.
I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.
I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.
Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.
All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.
I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.