ultrafacts: These rules were originally tweeted by Emma Coats, Pixar’s Story Artist.  You admire a character for trying more than for their successes. You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be very different. Trying for theme is important, but you…

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communistcoppola: x eta: Witness the after-competition pile.

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thefilmstage: A great new video essay counts down the 12 best examples of cinematography in cinema. Watch here. Stunning.  Find 12 minutes. You will get why using your pages for story is way more important than describing static images.

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JEEEEZ

annerocious: I’m not asking you to make every story you write a thoughtful feminist treatise, just that you don’t keep writing like you don’t know what year it is and you don’t know what’s going on.

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My thing is that most scripts aren’t bad scripts, they’re just not finished yet. Michael Arndt (via scriptwriters-network) That’s my thing, too. (via annerocious)

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marikamakesmovies: “If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.” – Alfred Hitchcock

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theplaylistfilm: “If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?”No Country for Old Men (2007)

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