Friday, Dec. 11

The Final Word

Ted Elliot brings an end to my week long lunchtime obsession:

But if your goal in writing a screenplay is to make a movie that is faithful to the vision of the movie you wrote the screenplay to express (but you don’t have the resources to finance the movie yourself, as Paula notes) — then you must have the ability to take into account other peoples’ ideas as to what the movie should be, and reconcile them in a way that is consistent with your sensibilities, aesthetic and vision of the movie; and you must make the most of your opportunities to exercise that ability. In short, they could understand that screenwriters are not only writers whose craft is limited to writing; they may well know that screenwriters are filmmakers, whose craft is writing movies.