Screenwriting 101: Alfonso Cuarón

“I think as screenwriters we need to recognize that this particular art in which narrative is constraining time, that’s something I find very beautiful. Because when you’re reading a book, a novel, you get immersed, lost in those pages, but you’re not bound by time. When we are experiencing a film, we are on the one hand lost in that universe, in that experience, but by the same token, we are breathing that experience for as long as it lasts. I think that’s something that is so important in the process of screenwriting, that sense of the experience that we’re going to have in real time, the sense of time that binds us with the now.”

— Alfonso Cuarón

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