Screenwriting 101: Brian Koppelman
“The job of the writer on a studio assignment is to deliver a shootable script as defined by other people — the director, actors…
“The job of the writer on a studio assignment is to deliver a shootable script as defined by other people — the director, actors, producers, and studio. Has the writer been devalued in town? For sure. And wrongly so. And the practice has no doubt made the overall quality of studio movies worse. But it is the current state of play, and there’s no changing it.”
— Brian Koppelman
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