Screenwriting 101: Christopher Hampton

“David Lean had several principles, that he repeated more than once. Lesson One was that the most important thing in any screenplay is the final image of one scene and the first image of the next scene and how they flow into one another. If you do that right, you will have something that is not a disparate set of 250 scenes — you will have about six to ten chapters within which everything flows from one scene to the next in the most effortless way. You can shock the audience — you can do all sorts of things — but you have to do it in a way that maintains the narrative integrity of the piece.”

— Christopher Hampton

FilmCraft | Screenwriting, PP. 100–101

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