Screenwriting 101: Jay Presson Allen
“I don’t do anything but write. I get up and I write and I write, until I have to go to sleep; then, I get up, eat something, then go back…
“I don’t do anything but write. I get up and I write and I write, until I have to go to sleep; then, I get up, eat something, then go back to work. I do a script very fast, because I don’t stop. All day. All night, until I’m too sleepy. Of course, I do a lot of rewriting. A tremendous amount of rewriting.
The easiest part is going into some kind of overture. When you come out, you don’t know who wrote it. That’s kind of wonderful. You start writing at eight o’clock in the morning. The first thing you know it’s two, and you don’t remember that time. That’s when all the good stuff happens. If I have to labor and sweat, it’s never any good.”
— Jay Presson Allen (Marnie, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Cabaret)
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