#screenwriting

I want to get off with the screenwriting. ↗

— Obie Trice

#i #off #screenwriting #want

people don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative. ↗

— Chester Elijah Branch

#screenwriting #storytelling #movies

Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#bit #forward #go #ironing #like

It's an enormous wall that's built between you and your dreams. And if every day, you just chip away... It may take ten years, but eventually you just might see some light. ↗

— Edward Burns

#screenwriting #dreams

To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message. ↗

— Chester Elijah Branch

#parables #screenwriting #storytelling #television #art

Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses." Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#addiction #alcoholism #celebrities #dysfunctional-families #fiction

If the story you're telling, is the story you're telling, you're in deep shit. ↗

— Robert McKee

#writing #writing-craft #writing-craft

I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve. ↗

— Asghar Farhadi

#become #bit #close #close friends #down

I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#anything #going #i #i think #screenwriting

I don't think screenwriting is therapeutic. It's actually really, really hard for me. It's not an enjoyable process. ↗

— Charlie Kaufman

#enjoyable #hard #i #me #process