#screenwriting

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

— Robert McKee

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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

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The challenge of screenwriting is to say much in little and then take half of that little out and still preserve an effect of leisure and natural movement. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

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I find that screenwriting is at best kind of a hackwork in some ways. ↗

— John Milius

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

— Chester Elijah Branch

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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

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

— Charlie Kaufman

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