Screenwriting 101: Ted Tally
“It’s… just that you’re coming to grips with a story and characters that are not your own and that you’ve got to try to make your own, and…
“It’s… just that you’re coming to grips with a story and characters that are not your own and that you’ve got to try to make your own, and that’s just an almost physical struggle until you feel some mastery over it. It may be a world you’ve never lived in or imagined before, it may be science fiction or a western, or something that you don’t really have the dramatic vocabulary for — you’ve faked your way into getting the job and now you’ve got to actually sit down and do it. So that first half of the first act is a tremendous struggle, and those pages get constantly rewritten. But by the time you get to the last part of the act, it goes by in a blur and you hand it in.”
— Ted Tally
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