Screenwriting 101: Rob Meyer
“Even in an indie film I’d say it’s actually more important to have a logline that 70 to 90 percent of people are going to perk up, and…
“Even in an indie film I’d say it’s actually more important to have a logline that 70 to 90 percent of people are going to perk up, and say, ‘Oh, that sounds kind of cool.’ Like our friend Craig Johnson, he just directed The Skeleton Twins. It’s a movie with Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig playing suicidal twins… see, it already sounds more interesting than a lot of indie loglines that you’re going to hear. Indie films are as much in the mercy of having stuff that sounds good to people in a pitch.”
— Rob Meyer