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I have watched some of the videos and while they are very informative, it all depends on what style works for you ... because for instance Sheldon Turner said he read all the screenplays he could get his hands on to help him hone his craft, whereas Scott Rosenberg says reading screenplays is the worse thing a new writer could do and he took classes to help him with structure.

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He taught how to write screenplays that sold, not how to be an auteur (and since two of my four screenplays from the period were optioned, I'd say he taught it well).

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The rule of thumb for screenplays is that one page equals about one minute of screen time.

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One of the reasons I love talking about screenplays is that the story must be tight in a movie – characters and plot must be developed in ~2 hours – and so screenplays can yield easily highlighted lessons for the writer.

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One of the reasons I love talking about screenplays is that the story must be tight in a movie – characters and plot must be developed in ~2 hours – and so screenplays can yield easily highlighted lessons for the writer.

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I admit, with some guilt, that I even read the killer's dreadful, twisted "screenplays" - chock full of sociopathic red flags to be sure, but probably no more vile and poorly written than much of the sub-Tarantino dreck through which Hollywood script readers must wade on a daily basis.

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One of the things that I love about his screenplays are the way the story is told and this film continues that wonderful trend.

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"He can never transcend his screenplays, which is too bad because he seems to have no discrimination in picking them out."

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The screenplays are a boldly imaginative adaptation of the books, which I've read many times.

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"He can never transcend his screenplays, which is too bad because he seems to have no discrimination in picking them out."

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