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Don't give up over a failure. Not everything you write or every idea you have is going to be successful. Keep trying until you have your best work.
- Just because someone doesn't like your work doesn't mean everyone else won't.

Know your deadline.
- Map out your work so you are prepared to deliver it before your deadline. Give yourself time.

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"I used to say... to someone who wants to write, "Go! Write! Do your thing." Its free you don't need permission."

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Working is not instantly rewarding. Its a long process, and it's much easier to just feed whatever dopamine cycles exist in your brain in instant gratification ways. I get it. I do it.

Greta Gerwig also encourages working as much as you can with your resources.

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Emma Thompson says that you don't need to learn how to not fail, you just need to learn how to fail and how you can then learn from that and grow.
-“if you can’t fail like that you can’t do this job.”
-“if you keep rewriting by hand you will rewrite it naturally.”
-“If you want to make a good film, your screenplay needs to be all good scenes, no bad scenes and one great scene”

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Don't worry about genre or theme:

“I wanna just think about the experience of the movie. I feel like, as soon as I reduce it to a theme, once I write that sentence, it won’t be that great. I feel like there’s more potential for it to mean something interesting if I’m not forcing it to mean something I’ve already decided.”

“All the movies that I’ve made have been movies that aren’t entirely comedies. Halfway through the movie, there’s a shift. It turns into something darker, I guess.”

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“For me, it always gets back to story. And I think if you set out to say: ‘I’m going to write a poem about the injustice of voter fraud. I’m going to write a musical about voter fraud and rigged elections,’ and I’m telling you it’s going to be boring. It’s going to be boring because you’re starting with themes instead of with the story.”

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Tips for screenwriting

Make sure you have a conflict (No conflict, no story)

Make the story interesting, have there be a big fight or a huge stressor

Embrace how personal a story can be

Making the story involve you and make you feel scared about how raw and sensitive you are

Don’t worry about picking a theme or a genre

If you restrict yourself to one idea you're not going to get a creative enough story

Let yourself write freely

Follow the story and allow yourself to follow whatever youfind

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"Listen to others, be yourself, failure is fine, learn from your mistakes, and work well with others." - M Night Shyamalan

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Structure is the key to narrative. These are the crucial questions any storyteller must answer: Where does it begin? Where does the beginning start to end and the middle begin? Where does the middle start to end and the end begin?... Each of those things is entirely up to the writer. They are the hardest decisions for any writer to make about any story, whether fiction or nonfiction.

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."Listen to Others, Stay True to yourself, failure is fine, and work with people not against them."-M Night Shyamalan.

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“I would tell the storytellers living in these incredibly interesting times: Find the story that moves you and changes you and allows you to see differing perspectives. Because if the story is compelling, we’ll go with you regardless of what the politics inherent are. … I believe your responsibility as a storyteller, especially in the theater, is to give people the time of their lives and tell a great story well. Everything else is gravy.”

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“It takes a long time to find your own voice; it takes a lot of reading things you love and seeing things you love and reading things you hate and seeing things you hate.”

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"Be the filmmaker you want to see in the world."

"Go your own way."

"Study acting."

"Always look forward."

"Don't be deterred."

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"All good ideas start out as bad ideas, that's why it takes so long." -Stephen Spielberg