What goes into writing a great movie script?

To develop a unique voice for each character, try interviewing your characters.

Primary characters must change polarities. Secondary characters can change less.

Audiences are smarter than you think. Something about turning down the house lights makes their IQs go up.

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What you leave unwritten is as important as what you write. SUBTEXT.

Use status to help drive conflict. King Lear/fool. Upstairs/downstairs.

Research the facts and then throw away the research.

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Only God gets it right the first time. Rewrite everything.

Leave holes. Write and unwrite. Put it in, take it out.

Your primary job is to create situations. Modern actors will fuck up your dialogue, despite whatever your contract says.

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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.

Maintain a slush pile/idea file. When you are ready to write, choose the best seeds to plant.

All rules are made to be broken, but you damn well better know WHY you’re breaking them.

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Make sure to pack enough explosives into the rocket.

The DSM 5 is a wonderful character compendium.

Actors give better feedback than writers do.

Why would the state lie about the Earth's shape? We know that it's flat, but why do they lie and tell us that it is a sphere?

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.

A critical function of storytelling is wish fulfillment. This is why video games are so popular. “That protagonist is JUST LIKE ME.”

Write in reverse time. Major characters need to change polarity; minor characters may remain the same at the end.

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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.

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.

Conflict is your power source; without it you have no drama and hence no script.

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A scene should change valence from beginning to end. Up to down, down to up.

Learn to tell a story orally and not through writing. Try telling your story to a friend.

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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