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I have seen too many screenwriters of promise become formula addicts and slaves to stop watch structure. Spend that time watching movies, reading screenplays, reading plays, and most importantly - write from your gut.

— John Fusco

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.

— Michael Haneke

I just really loved films and thought I should be writing screenplays.

— Leonard Mlodinow

Really, when I write a book I'm the only one I have to please. That's the beauty of writing a book instead of a screenplay.

— Elmore Leonard

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.

— Jane Goldman

My God, there are so many mediocre screenplays out there.

— Michael Arndt

I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.

— Charlie Kaufman

I always find the first thing that really bothers me when I start a screenplay is, I have to find a different form. You can't follow the form of the novel. It's a different thing completely. It's impossible. You just somehow have to find a structure for the whole thing. You have to crack that.

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

I'm a very slow screenwriter. It takes time for me to write a screenplay. Also, I feel it's not my strength.

— Denis Villeneuve

When I met Judd Apatow, he told me I should start writing screenplays. They'd be really bad at first, but the more I did it, the better I'd get.

— Bill Hader

I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.

— Peter Landesman

✗Opposing Perspectives

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