Screenwriting 101: Andrew Marlowe
“Sometimes you’ll get a note, ‘This scene is boring, can we put in a car chase?’ What you should take from that note is this scene, this…
“Sometimes you’ll get a note, ‘This scene is boring, can we put in a car chase?’ What you should take from that note is this scene, this quiet scene you intended to be emotionally devastating is boring. That means you might not have done your work setting up the characters or the relationships, 20, 30, 40 pages earlier.”
— Andrew Marlowe