Sometimes there's something that a writer doesn't see or a producer doesn't see when he's looking at a shot.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.
For writers and artists, it's always a balancing act between wanting to be the center of attention and wanting to be invisible and watch what's going on.
Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.
When a director is also a writer, everyone on the production looks to him, knowing he gave birth to the idea. There's a different level of viability.
There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that it is coming from inside out, not outside in.
I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.
If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much about the writer.
When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
Every single director stops at the moment he thinks he has the shot. Sometimes, directors shoot an establishing shot where everything is in the shot. He's going to use this at the beginning and the end.