If you're writing a screenplay, you need to be prepared to let go: there's a good chance the words you write aren't going to be the ones that end up on screen.
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Writing a screenplay needs to be more than words on a page - and by the way, I think the words on the page are something you have to try to execute on the highest level you can; I'm not dismissing that by any regard.
When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
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.
'Writing' is the wrong way to describe what happens to words in a movie. First, you put down words. Then you rehearse them with actors. Then you shoot the words. Then you edit them. You cut a lot of them, you fudge them, you make up new ones in voice-over. Then you cut it and throw it all away.
I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit.
It's hard writing screenplays.
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.
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.
I've been writing screenplays for a long time, and a lot of it came out of the journalism I was doing.
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