Screenwriting 101: Chris McCoy

“The advantage to what we do is that we are not actors. We don’t have to wait around for someone to hand us material that inspires something within us. We can sit down and write the kind of movie we want to see.

In general, people can smell the bullshit if you are writing something that just goes with the market, that goes with the trend, what’s selling that month.

The more you step away from that mindset, and the more you go, “Okay, I am going to write things that I care about at this moment,” the less that bullshit smell is going to be there. Unless you care about your work, no one else is going to care about it. That’s what voice is: this is what I care about at this time.”

— Chris McCoy

2014 Go Into The Story Screenwriters Roundtable

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