Finn Wolfhard Quotes

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

Whenever you write script without a director, you put in things that point toward a style in which the story will be told, a subjective style.

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.

Personally, I read a lot of scripts.

Ensure that your script is watertight. If it's not on the page, it will never magically appear on the screen.

I worked in script development, many years ago, and read a lot of scripts. Between that and the scripts I've read as an actor, and I'm a writer as well, I think I have a pretty good sense about whether the bones of a story are there and whether the structure is intact.

Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.

I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a couple of scripts so I could see how the formatting works. I just needed to know how a Hollywood screenplay looked on the page, which was something I was totally unfamiliar with.

It's like, in movies where you talk to the audience 90 percent of the time, it's - you kind of want to stay away from that stuff. But, you know - but to write exposition brilliantly is hard.

When you're writing a feature film, the moment you begin Page 1, you are in a sweat that you're running out of pages.

I'm kind of down for anything, as long as it's an amazing script that speaks to me, so I'm just constantly reading and constantly looking.

You have to look for story. That's obvious. If that's not on the page, you can forget it. But I also read whatever character I'm being offered. And if you can cut them out without it affecting the story, then I say no straight away.

A good script makes our job a lot easier.

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

When I first read the script a few years ago I thought it was one of the best written scripts I had ever read.

Writing a TV show is totally different than writing features, or just, what I started doing is writing features. You write a little bit more organically. You start from the beginning to the end, beginning, middle and end.

I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a plot, developing relatable characters and keeping your audience invested in your story. My books are basically structured like three-act plays.

I'm big on story structure. I studied with John Truby, who mapped out story by means of moral wants and needs, and that's what I do. Hey, so does John Irving.

It's hard to find scripts that know what they are from page one to page 115.

If you get a script and it's really well written, that's always exciting.

In a lot of ways, TV writing taught me how to be a good storyteller. I learned about dialogue, scenes, moving the plot forward.

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. That's what writing a screenplay is.

When you read a script, you get a feeling from it.