Screenwriting 101: James DiLapo

“Emotional authenticity, even with a period piece, is more important than historical authenticity. If you can get the audience to feel as if they are there with the characters in that setting, experiencing the world that they are in, that’s the closest we can come to being there. We can’t recreate a world, but we can recreate the emotions of it.”

— James DiLapo

Go Into The Story Interview, May 13, 2013

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