Screenwriting 101: David Turpin

“I guess what I would say about screenwriting, in general, is that you can get an awful lot of guidance and an awful lot of help on how to structure your idea, and how to make your idea palatable, and how to make it work as a script. It’s both great to be able to get all that advice and all that help. I think you have to hold on to that initial feed that came out of your subconscious, that comes out of your dream life. You have to hold on to that throughout the process while shaping it into a screenplay. That’s what gives a screenplay texture. That’s what gives it character. It’s when it keeps that, be it ever so small, that one little grain of the inexplicable or the unexpected. You have to keep that through the formalizing process of writing a screenplay.”

— David Turpin

From Go Into The Story interview, September 2017

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