When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.
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I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.
When you direct a movie, you're basically looking at a story, the way you want to look at it. You bring that director's vision, and I'm totally open for that.
I know how to write a movie. I know how to direct a movie.
People think that the directors direct actors. No. Really, what the director's doing is directing the audience's eye through the film.
All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.
It's much like writing a screenplay with someone else and that's how we view it, I think.
A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
When I'm writing a movie, it's usually pretty close to what the movie is going to be, which is just a luxury of being a writer-director.
If you're writing a novel, you can afford to see where the spirit takes you, but in terms of structure and engineering with a screenplay, you have to be quite pragmatic; otherwise, it will run away from you.
The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.