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“There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. all you need is to tell the truth. it’s always heartbreaking.”
- Ethan Hawke
“Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them — they’ll tell you who they are and what they’re up to”
- Greta Gerwig
“There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. all you need is to tell the truth. it’s always heartbreaking.”
- Ethan Hawke
“When working out a story, I try to stay away from traditional outlines … My answer is to use note cards that I spread out on the floor. Ideas for scenes go on a card and initially aren’t required to work in concert with other scenes. This process ends up creating connections and story lines that might not have been discovered otherwise. You never know where a card might land on your floor.”
- Jeff Nichols
“Have a beginning and an end. If it doesn’t need to start at a certain place and end at a certain place, then it might not be a movie. Go make it into a TV show instead, and you’ll get paid much better.”
- Andrew Bujalski
“Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.”
- William Monahan
“Characters can be happy for the last three minutes… until then, it’s a bumpy road.”
- Julian Fellowes
“Writing is both a pleasure and a struggle. There are times when it’s really aversive and unpleasant, and there are times when it’s wonderful and fun and magical, but that’s not the point. Writing is my job. I’m not a believer of waiting for the muse. You don’t put yourself in the mood to go to your nine-to-five job, you just go. I start in the morning and write all day. Successful writers don’t wait for the muse to fill themselves unless they’re geniuses. I’m not a genius. I’m smart, I have some talent, and I have a lot of stubbornness. I persevere. I was by no means the best writer in my class in college. I’m just the one still writing.”
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