"You’re a real writer if you write every day. I’ve written two screenplays this year, but for three years earlier, I didn’t write any screenplays at all."
"The weakest writing in America today is in the movies, the best writing is on TV, in series like The Sopranos. That’s because scripts for TV are about human beings and human behavior, not a journey to the center of the earth. Movies have become less and less about good writing and more and more about spectacle, so the importance of the screenwriter has declined. The most spirited dialogs in spectacle films are lines like: “Look, it’s coming” or “Run, run, run.” When I started out in the film business about 30 years ago, there was a crisis of content. Now there is a crisis of form, with films on DTH, internet downloads, and so on. But as screen sizes become small — TV, cable, computers, mobile phones — spectacle will become less important, and the importance of the screenwriter will be re-established."
~ Paul Schrader, screenwriter (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Last Temptation of Christ)
Source: http://www.tehelka.com
"You’re a real writer if you write every day. I’ve written two screenplays this year, but for three years earlier, I didn’t write any screenplays at all."
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