What’s The Key Ingredient To An Amazing Screenplay?

Reflections by actors, directors, producers, and other industry insiders.

From Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Science, people involved in the filmmaking business respond to the question: What is the key ingredient to an amazing screenplay?

As one would expect, there is a whole host of responses: great dialogue, surprise, something different. But one ingredient the respondents hit on over and over: characters. Complex. Unique. Characters with whom we identify. Characters who cause us to feel something.

In other words, character-driven screenwriting.

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