Screenwriting 101: Liz Hannah

“I think, if it is a challenge, then I shouldn’t be writing that script. For me, if it’s a challenge to find the perspective of the character, then that’s why it shouldn’t be a movie or it shouldn’t be whatever because, for me, the perspective of the character is the thing that I should be the most attracted to, because then that’s the reason I tell the story.

If you’re just telling…I think Sorkin said this actually. If you’re telling a story about a place, then that’s a TV show. If you’re telling a story about a character or a time, then maybe that’s a movie.”

— Liz Hannah

Go Into The Story interview, January 2018

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