Screenwriting 101: Aaron Guzikowski

“I think you just have to continually keep yourself excited about it. You can’t really look at it like you’re rewriting. You have to look at it as if you’re starting from scratch even if you’re not really doing that. I think when you get notes and stuff like that, and you’re trying to execute notes you have to find something inside the note that appeals to you and changes how you want to make the story to make it more interesting to you and look at it that way.

I think it’s all just finding ways to trick your mind into not knowing that you’re rewriting, that you’re not working on the same material endlessly. You have to find interesting ways to trick yourself into believing it’s all fresh and new and look at it that way.”

— Aaron Guzikowski (GITS Interview, February 22, 2014)