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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I studied screenwriting at film school and was constantly learning how to construct three-act dramas.
Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.
There are so many projects that you go into hoping the story works, and here comes a new third act and that kind of thing.
I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process.
I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.
I want to get off with the screenwriting.
I enjoy a third act, and I like stories with ending. A lot of my frustration with serialized storytelling is a lot of shows don't have a third act. They have an endless second act, and then they find out it's their last year and often have to hustle to invent a third act, but they were never necessarily organically meaning to begin with.
There's this inherent screenplay structure that everyone seems to be stuck on, this three-act thing. It doesn't really interest me. To me, it's kind of like saying, 'Well, when you do a painting, you always need to have sky here, the person here and the ground here.' Well, you don't.
I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.
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