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Stage Directions Quotes

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie Picture Quote #1

Don’t write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us how the character said it or whether or not she moved to the couch isn’t going to aid the case Picture Quote #1

Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away Picture Quote #1

I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting is in its terseness, saying a lot with a little. I have no patience when I read a script where the writer describes this guy and what he’s wearing and his glasses and his hair Picture Quote #1

Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They’re just jerking around Picture Quote #1

You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie Picture Quote #1

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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie (Stage Directions Quotes) Don’t write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us how the character said it or whether or not she moved to the couch isn’t going to aid the case (Stage Directions Quotes) Some stage directions you just simply have to throw away (Stage Directions Quotes) I usually write very few stage directions. I think a lot of that is a waste of time. The art of screenwriting is in its terseness, saying a lot with a little. I have no patience when I read a script where the writer describes this guy and what he’s wearing and his glasses and his hair (Stage Directions Quotes) Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They’re just jerking around (Stage Directions Quotes) You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie (Stage Directions Quotes)