"Like any artist‚ when something affects me emotionally I think about it in those terms. It's my way of dealing with my thoughts‚ my fears and my hardships. " #RyanCoogler#screenwriter / director Fruitvale Station #writer#screenwriting #blackvoicesmatter#BlackLivesMatter#BLM
“I want to show characters that you don’t always see,” ... “The moment someone starts to feel real to you, you can relate to them"... "Anytime you can increase the human capacity for empathy, you’ve won.“ - Alice Wu #screenwriter /director (The Half of It). #screenwriting
"People can't know where you're going, they have to be surprised. That doesn't necessarily mean twists, just that the viewer can't be ahead of the movie. That's crucial. " Logan #screenwriter Scott Frank #screenwriting#screenwriters#writing
"Are you developing a sense of conflict? Are your characters in opposition to each other?".." I'm always aware of the audience: Do they still want to know what comes next?" #screenwriter Ernest Lehman ( North by Northwest, ) #screenwriting#writing
" If you are too prescriptive in what you write, there is no room for their genius. But if you do not fight for your structure and underpinning, then everything will go to hell in an inchoate mess of actors’ improvisation and directorial overreach." - #screenwriter David Hare
"As a writer my objective is to show people another direction, to try to turn them inward rather than have them simply live in this outer framework". - Bruce Joel Rubin ( #screenwriter Jacob's Ladder, Ghost , etc) #screenwriters#screenwriting#movies#filmmaking#writing
"Never forget that you‘re only writing in order to revise. Always be open and receptive to all notes, no matter what they are (especially the ones that hurt the most)." - #screenwriter Andrew Lanham, co-writer @JustMercyFilm . #screenwriting
"The essential opening labor a #Screenwriter must execute is deciding what the proper structure should be for the particular screenplay you are writing"..."You have to know what is absolutely crucial in the telling of your story"you must protect it to the death." William Goldman
"This may be an apocryphal story but rumor has it that when Shakespeare was quarantined due to the plague...he wrote KING LEAR. Food for thought and the imagination" shared by our lead faculty @bettinamoss Poster from the version adapted by Richard Eyre. Stay safe, happy #writing
"It's really easy to make a movie that five people understand. It's really hard to make something that a lot of people understand and yet is not obvious, still has subtlety and ambiguity, and leaves you with something to do as a viewer."
#screenwriter & director Steven Soderbergh
...“the journey of learning how to write never completely stops, which is the reason I love it.” @StephanyFolsom #screenwriter ( 2020 Film #oscar
winner #ToyStory4 ) #screenwriting