Screenwriting 101: Arash Amel

“Craft is discipline. I’m a professional. This is my job. You have a lot of hungry agents to feed and a lot of attorneys to feed. The way to see it is, you’re the center of your own private enterprise. You’re the CEO of your own company. And you make start-ups. Every screenplay is a movie, every movie is at minimum a $10 to $20 million dollar start-up enterprise. For a brief period of time, you’re the general manager. No one can move unless you’ve written. You’re managing studios. You’re managing the producers. You have to treat it like a job. It’s a passion, but if you treat it like a passion too much you can lose focus. It’s all about that conflict between passion and discipline and making yourself write when you don’t want to write. That’s the difference between the professional screenwriter and a hobbyist.”

— Arash Amel

From Go Into The Story interview, July 5, 2013

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