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"If you begin a script today then start rewriting tomorrow after only 5-10 pages, you'll never ever finish."
"If you begin a script today then start rewriting tomorrow after only 5-10 pages, you'll never ever finish."
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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
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So true, boski, since many of my scripts are closer to a Phillip Glass."There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
-Maya AngelouComment
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Myth: horror is dead
Truth: no it isn't"you have to write right, right?" -- Todd GordonComment
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Myth: The movie is terrible ergo the script is terrible
Truth: The director's vision sucked and the actors butchered their lines,
The best way out is always through. - Robert FrostComment
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Myth:
Truth:
"Tone is now engaged in a furious Google search for Leighton Meester's keester." -- A friend of mine
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Myth: There are no screenwriting truths."I am the story itself; its source, its voice, its music."
- Clive Barker, GalileeComment
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Truth: There are no screenwriting myths."Tone is now engaged in a furious Google search for Leighton Meester's keester." -- A friend of mine
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Myth: This thread has run its course.
Truth: This thread has run its course."There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
-Maya AngelouComment
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Myth: Format is everything!
Truth: Anything goes.Comment
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Myth: All great screenplays get optioned.
Truth: Many great screenplays never get optioned.
Or it may be the converse. It's the new year, and I don't know much.Comment
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Myth: Screenwriting is the way to riches!
Truth: Keep your day job even after you make a sale.
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I work nights
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
-Maya AngelouComment
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Myth: Keep prose to a bare minimum.
Truth: Read The Low Dweller.Comment
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