Screenwriting 101: Ron Shelton

“The cliché about the studio grinder — that it will take an idea and beat it up until it’s unrecognizable — well, there’s truth to it. There’s also truth to the fact that really good screenplays do survive; really good screenplays do get through the system. If you’re writing a movie that needs to be a studio picture, then you can’t go in thinking it’s going to be mangled. You have to go in thinking that you’re making a great movie. Mangling is just part of the process.”

— Ron Shelton

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