Screenwriting 101: Amy Tofte
That’s the one thing that screenwriters all understand, I think. There have been people who say, ‘It’s the hardest kind of writing to do…
“That’s the one thing that screenwriters all understand, I think. There have been people who say, ‘It’s the hardest kind of writing to do in the world.’ I think all writing is hard, but there’s a strange intersection of journalism and poetry in dramatic writing. The poetry part is the economy of it and the beauty, but the journalism part is you know exactly the who, what, where, when, you know all those answers. Beyond that there’s this magical element that makes it wonderful. Like it’s, ‘What’s the part of the script that makes it wonderful?’ I think that’s the really hard part. Everyone wants a formula for that, but there isn’t one.”
— Amy Tofte