I outline and outline and outline, and then I’m very specific about the stuff I write. That’s my process.
Sometimes as writers, we try and put narrative development above character development. We try to move our characters around like chess pieces that do our bidding. The problem with that is sometimes the characters do things they shouldn’t do. Things that are inorganic.
Definitely when you give a script to an actor, it’s like dropping a capsule in water and the fizzing starts. That’s when the thing starts to live and breathe.
Endings don’t have anything to do with what your movie is about. Now, there is an emotional climax, there’s an emotional resolution that is 100 percent important. If I get that wrong, get your money back.
I think plot is very overrated. Plot is obviously necessary, but what I really care about is emotionally affecting the audience. Having a thought myself and then an emotional experience myself, somehow transferring that to the audience.
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