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Film Courage: How long does it take you to write a feature script?
Michael J. Epstein, Filmmaker, Writer, Musician, and Scientist: The process of writing a feature script is hard to quantify in time because usually if I’m doing something I really care about what usually happens is I think about it for about six months, I start to write down a few ideas. I ponder it for about six months then I start to write an outline of it that might take a few days or a few hours depending on how much I’ve thought through it in advance. Once I sit down to write it, if I’m dedicated to it, usually a couple of weeks if I’m really focused on that. Most of the time it takes longer because I can’t dedicate eight hours a day to doing it, so most of the time it’ll take two months or something more like that.
Film Courage: Do you usually end up talking yourself out of an idea?
Michael: Not too often. I guess I have many scripts that are in the nugget stage where I have written a basic idea and I think about it for a long time and I start to outline it. It’s not that I talk myself out of it, but I just never find the time to move forward with it. It becomes less important to me than maybe another idea…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
BIO:
Michael J. Epstein is a filmmaker, writer, musician, and scientist. With his production company, Launch Over, he has made theme-driven genre shorts and features that have played more than 75 film festivals and have been distributed worldwide. Prior to his film career, Michael toured and recorded with indie bands The Motion Sick, The Michael J. Epstein Memorial Library, Neutral Uke Hotel, and Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling. He has also published more than 40 book chapters, papers, and abstracts in the auditory and psychological sciences and has written books on crowdfunding and the logical structures of science, mathematics, and statistics.
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