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always said that Bernie didn’t bet on the horses, he bet on the jockeys. Michael Bennett comes up with a musical. Mike Nichols comes up with a play, Neil Simon with a play. You try to get their shows in your theaters. So Sondheim comes up with a musical—you say yes. William Goldman used to say, “Nobody knows anything. Every time out, it’s a guess.”
... See moreJames Lapine • Putting It Together: How Stephen Sondheim and I Created "Sunday in the Park with George
“The trick is,” film executive Tom Rothman says, “from the business side, to try to be fiscally responsible so you can be creatively reckless.”
—Lynda Barry • Keep your overhead low
Dramatic Irony: Employ Hitchcock’s favorite device and hide from the protagonist a fact known to the audience.
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Excellent film dialogue tends to shape itself into the periodic sentence:
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Screenplays are structure. Precisely made Swiss clocks of emotion.
Blake Snyder • Save the Cat
Screenplays are structure. Precisely made Swiss clocks of emotion.