Screenwriting 101: Elizabeth Chomko

“Writing movies is like surgery. Every moment needs to be crafted; threads need to be implanted early and woven throughout, it needs to be tight and lean and agile and full of diverse authentic bits. It’s tough to hide like you can with a play — the film audience is inches away, sniffing for lies. There are restrictions and yet anything is possible. There’s so much opportunity in the cinematic art form. You can storytell with a camera move, or the way the light is, or juxtaposing two simple images.”

— Elizabeth Chomko

From Go Into The Story interview, June 2016

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