Screenwriting 101: Byron Hamel
“If I have a good idea, I try to write a brief summary of what that story would look like. We’re talking five paragraphs, maybe. If I can…
“If I have a good idea, I try to write a brief summary of what that story would look like. We’re talking five paragraphs, maybe. If I can break five paragraphs down into a good logline, then it’s worth writing. If I can’t, then it’s probably not worth writing. To me, the logline is so fucking important. I don’t want to start a project if I don’t have a good logline, because I’ll just have to change it later. If I don’t have protagonist, goal, obstacle, good twist, I’m not interested in writing that story.”
— Byron Hamel
Go Into The Story interview, January 2022
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