Check out these in-depth interviews and discussions where Screenwriters share their insights and tell what drives them.
“Sometimes works of art that seem far away from reality are those that are the closest to reality.”
Interviews from Havana – Dec. 4, 2014
“Be nervous. Be vulnerable. Just make your story honest and tell it.”
WGAW Acceptance Speech – 2023
“You have the responsibility to be truthful.”
Master Class – 2011
“My responsibility is to serve the story”
Harper’s Bazaar UK – 2021
“We called kishotenketsu ‘the four boxes’ … it meant that the structure of a scenario had four indispensable elements and stages.”
From the book Compound Cinematics – published in 2015
Available at: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/237085/compound-cinematics-by-shinobu-hashimoto/
“Own your story — don’t apologize for it. Own it. For example, I was in my 40’s when I started to want to staff. Instead of feeling bad about that — I owned my story. I would talk about all the other things I’d been doing prior to writing and how all that life experience was going to be so valuable in a room!”
Authority Magazine – “Rising Star Luisa Leschin” – Jun 25, 2020
Luisa on how writers and showrunners select actors for roles in their screenplays.
“I as an actress made myself a promise that I would open every single audition…”
Interviewed by Lydia Nicole – 2018
“In the media, the migration of Senegalise young men was approached from a very abstract and cold statistic economic angle. I was extremely disturbed. As a filmmaker, I had to give a voice back to the migrants.”
Interview at Toronto International Film Festive – 2019
“As I’m working, I almost feel like I have to get out of my own way. If I do too much analysis and frontal lobe thinking, I kill it”
Fuller Studio Interview – 2018
https://fullerstudio.fuller.edu/pete-docter-on-storytelling/
“There is a Japanese aesthetic and philosophical belief called kintsugi, which is broken pottery that you put back together with gold. I think kintsugi is the key to being yourself. You don’t want to be repaired; you just want to be aware that there is gold in your fractures.”
The Hollywood Reporter – November 3, 2017