Screenwriting 101: Michael Ballin and Thomas Aguilar

“You should always have that ‘Break-in-case-of-emergency script.’ The thing that you can turn to when, ‘Everything’s on fire, I haven’t got a job in nine months, I’m struggling, what do I do…?’ You break it. That’s what this script was for us, and we always have that one we’re working on that’s different. Anytime we feel complacent, we break out that new script and try something new.”

— Thomas Aguilar and Michael Ballin, writers of the 2021 Black List script The College Dropout

Go Into The Story interview, April 2022

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