Screenwriting 101: Garry Marshall

“My main mentor was Carl Reiner because he took the time to explain stories. ‘You know,’ he said, ‘if you just use your imagination, you’ll be selling shoes in three week. You gotta look at life and tell me what happened every day and take what’s going on in life. And if you don’t have an interesting life, then steal someone else’s. Don’t ever say something is boring. Whoever you meet, you ask them questions about their life and find out.’ And that’s how I learned to write stories.”

— Garry Marshall

Written By, April | May 2015

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