Screenwriting 101: Park Chan-Wook

“A common beginner’s mistake would be to try and be perfect about everything that you write, and each line that you write you want to make it perfect. If you work like that, you will come up against a block. And once you are in that situation, you just cannot move any step further from that. When you are stuck, it doesn’t matter what cliche you have to use or what trashy piece of line of action or dialogue you might have to subscribe to, but it is important to get over that block, and get to the end. You can always come back to it later. If your first draft is not full of treasure, it doesn’t matter.”

— Park Chan-Wook

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