Screenwriting 101: Wes Anderson
“I use little notebooks. I write out everything longhand first, then I type it into the computer… I create seven of these [notebooks] for…
“I use little notebooks. I write out everything longhand first, then I type it into the computer… I create seven of these [notebooks] for each film for some reason… The first notebooks are like this one, and then the fourth, fifth, and sixth notebooks; you can flip those open and say, ‘Well, that scene’s in here.’ This scene’s totally changed now. This part never made it in at all.’ For me, where I start first with a script are these images of the characters. There’s usually quite a lot of that before there’s anything that resembles a page of a script. Then, once we have it printed, I always have a draft on me and I make changes on the page as we’re reworking the material.”
— Wes Anderson (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums)
From “Screenwriters’ Masterclass: Screenwriters Talk About Their Greatest Movies,” edited by Kevin Conroy Scott [P. 117–118]
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