What goes into writing a great movie script?
Last Updated: 28.06.2025 11:39
Cut everything that is not a payoff, or a setup for a specific payoff. “Omit needless words.” Think about the sparseness of joke telling, or Grimm Brothers.
To develop a unique voice for each character, try interviewing your characters.
Don’t direct from the page. Everyone, from the director on down, wants to be part of the process of making movies. Let them do their work.
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Your primary job is to create situations. Modern actors will fuck up your dialogue, despite whatever your contract says.
Use status to help drive conflict. King Lear/fool. Upstairs/downstairs.
People choose what to see based on the high concept. Make sure to deliver an ending consistent with the high concept -- it is what the audience paid for.
A scene should change valence from beginning to end. Up to down, down to up.
Get up there yourself. Be in a movie. Take some acting (not writing) classes. Learn how a trained actor approaches a text. Learn why actors take roles. They do as much if not more than the writer does.
Leave holes. Write and unwrite. Put it in, take it out.
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Write in reverse time. Major characters need to change polarity; minor characters may remain the same at the end.
A critical function of storytelling is wish fulfillment. This is why video games are so popular. “That protagonist is JUST LIKE ME.”
Audiences are smarter than you think. Something about turning down the house lights makes their IQs go up.
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Primary characters must change polarities. Secondary characters can change less.
Only God gets it right the first time. Rewrite everything.
Actors give better feedback than writers do.
Research the facts and then throw away the research.
What you leave unwritten is as important as what you write. SUBTEXT.
Outline everything. Use story beats. Keep character’s mouths taped up, until they absolutely MUST speak. Write the script and the dialogue at the last minute, after you’ve revised the hell out of the outline.
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All rules are made to be broken, but you damn well better know WHY you’re breaking them.
Maintain a slush pile/idea file. When you are ready to write, choose the best seeds to plant.
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Make sure to pack enough explosives into the rocket.
Learn to tell a story orally and not through writing. Try telling your story to a friend.
Conflict is your power source; without it you have no drama and hence no script.
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