Dr. Ken Atchity: Don’t tell us how great it is, just tell us the story.
Jason Satterlund: I think we all just assume that we’re all geniuses when we start. Pretty much most of us aren’t.
Dr. Ken Atchity: We don’t want to hear this your first pitch. We don’t want to hear you know you haven’t done this much. We want to hear that you practice this and that you know exactly what to say. We want to see if you’ve got the goods and that is the story. Like Mark Twain said Don’t tell us the fat lady is going to sing. Bring her out, let her sing.
Shannan E. Johnson: A lot of times people are writing screenplays because they’re writing what they’ve seen already because they think that those are the movie moments that make the film instead of realizing that movie moment mattered because of who those characters were and what they were trying to get done. It means absolutely nothing in your screenplay.
Jill Chamberlain: Screenwriters are failing to tell a story, they’re failing to realize that structure is a way to maximize the impact of their story and that they are ending up presenting a situation instead of telling a story.
Michael Hauge: One of the most difficult things for writers to really embrace is this idea that at the very foundation of any…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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