“The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer” – Billy Wilder
“To whom is your story addressed and why? Audience is always a creative act of the imagination. You can’t tell your story effectively and leave it out. It must be alive in you, vividly alive. It is in conflict with everything that is false in what you have written. If it is an audience worthy of your talent and potential, it won’t let you slide by the lies, the laziness, the shortcuts. If you don’t take audience seriously, you can be sure it will return the favor.” – Billy Marshall Stoneking
“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
The last six are from Quentin Tarantino via Film Slate Magazine ” “STEAL FROM EVERYONE”\. I steal from every movie ever made,” Tarantino has been famously quoted as saying. … OUR advice is to Learn from everyone and adapt what you learn to what you write.
WRITE THE WAY PEOPLE TALK. …
TAKE A POPULAR GENRE AND FLIP IT ON ITS HEAD. …
MAKE IT PERSONAL. …
INJECT HUMOR INTO YOUR SCRIPT.
PLAY THE AUDIENCE. “It’s like laugh, laugh, laugh — stop laughing. Okay, now be horrified. Be horrified. This is horrible. This is horrible. This is horrible, horrible, horrible — laugh. And that’s what I want to do… when someone does that to me, I’ve had a good time at the movies.”
