How They Write A Script: Paul Schrader

Paul Schrader

In a previous post, I noted two radically different approaches to writing as represented by Neil Simon, who doesn’t “make outlines at all” and Paul Schrader, who not only creates an outline, he re-outlines it. Let’s look more closely at how Schrader writes a script:

“I know exactly where I’m going beforehand. I know to the half page if I’m on or off target. I draw up charts before I do a script…