Screenwriting 101: Chris Borrelli

“Actors come at things, I am going to say, being very general here, more emotionally. Sometimes, as screenwriters, we get into structure as we should, and all these character moments, but then, an actor looks at it from a different point of view, and it can be valuable. What’s the emotion? What’s the motivation? I’d say, with actors, that’s the number one thing they are thinking, whereas, as a writer, honestly, it’s probably when I am, especially when I am writing a spec or whatever, it’s number three, four, or five, for me. It’s good to have that. I’ve had that now and I’ve changed a little bit where I try to do an ‘actor pass’ in my head as I read it through, making everything about emotion, and at that point, the script, putting the structure, and story, just a little to the side, making it more emotion-heavy than structure-heavy.”

— Chris Borrelli

From Go Into The Story interview, November 2015

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