Screenwriters Roundtable: Chris Borrelli, F.

2012 Screenwriters Roundtable

My conversation with Chris Borrelli, F. Scott Frazier, Chris McCoy, Justin Rhodes, Greg Russo, and John Swetnam.

Between them, they have sold more than a dozen spec scripts and have multiple original screenplays on the Black List. Here is the 2012 conversation featuring Chris Borrelli, F. Scott Frazier, Chris McCoy, Justin Rhodes, Greg Russo, and John Swetnam.

Here are links to all six installments of the interview:

Part 1: “For me, writing is conceptually like a journey through complexity to get back to simplicity.” — Justin Rhodes

Part 2: “The successes I’ve had in pitching have always been based around a single character… What is the main character’s story, and how is he relating to all of the other people in the movie?” — F. Scott Frazier

Part 3: “If I’m 30 or 40 pages in, I’ll print it out and go back through it by hand and make my corrections on the page, because I always feel like visually, that’s the way it’s going to be hitting the reader. Just to feel it out and make sure it looks right, I find correcting it by hand is more intimate.” — Chris McCoy

Part 4: “One genre that you love… That love comes out in the script. It becomes special, and it’s different. You’re not just imitating other people.” — Chris Borrelli

Part 5: “Even if you don’t feel like it, you have to show up. And I think as an aspiring writer, and I tried to do this, was to take that mentality. It’s a job, and you must always show up and work.” — John Swetnam

Part 6: “Never stop learning. If every day I’m learning something new as a writer… If every day I’m getting a little bit better at this… that’s all I can ask for from myself. Never stop learning. It’s as simple as that.” — Greg Russo

Entire Roundtable Conversation

Thanks to all involved and the best of luck in your writing careers! We look forward to seeing the many movies you write hit theaters in the future.

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