The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.
For me, as a writer who comes from quite a naturalistic tradition, British screenwriting is quite delicate, quite small, and rarified in a way.
I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.
I want to get off with the screenwriting.
I'm used to adapting my novels for feature film - it can be challenging to cut and compress three or four hundred pages into two hours of dramatic action.
I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
I'm pretty disciplined to keep the momentum of a story going by writing everyday, even if it's only a couple paragraphs or a page or two.
I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.
Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.
I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing.
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