Screenwriting 101: Sean Robert Daniels
Re writing dialogue: “I think the first thing you have to do is listen to other people. A lot. And not just when you are part of the…
On writing dialogue: “I think the first thing you have to do is listen to other people. A lot. And not just when you are part of the conversation. If I’m at a party, I like sitting back and listening to people talk. You have to have that ear. You have to tune yourself into listening not to what people are saying precisely, but how they’re saying it. If you have the same conversation between two men and you put the exact same lines now between a man and a woman, they talk to each other differently. I love the power relationships of conversations and the history that comes with every conversation, that wonderful subtext.”
— Sean Robert Daniels
From Go Into The Story interview, February 2013
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