Screenwriting 101: Reid Carolin

“Honestly, I just love the process of creating anything. Writing is great because if you love stories, and you know how much stories have affected people, and you are somebody that…like for me stories are everything. I love telling them, I love hearing them from other people. I love the way that a well told story can move you, and change the way that you think about life. I think…and then change the way that you make decisions in your life. I think there’s a great responsibility, for storytellers to do good work. That’s at least how I feel. I feel like great stories are necessary things for our culture, that can move culture, almost more than politics can.

I do believe that a great story has so much power, that it’s almost impossible to measure. I do feel like being a writer is a great opportunity to tell those types of stories, to get better at your craft, to work with certain people, who make you better at your craft, and to try to create things that move culture forward, and that awe people, and move people, and make them laugh, and cry, and all that sort…

That, I think, is such a great opportunity. So to be a writer ‑‑ a screenwriter in particular ‑‑ that has the opportunity to work on those sorts of things, I just love the fact that we have that ability. Because, really, there isn’t another place in the world, besides Hollywood, that has the platform yet, where you can make a story that travels the world like a movie does, and that reaches as many people as a movie does.”

— Reid Carolin

From Go Into The Story interview, May 2013

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