Screenwriting 101: Carl Foreman

“When I first came out to Hollywood, it never occurred to me that the story had to be about something. I just thought a good story had a good plot and good interesting characters and lots of action. It took me some time to realize that the plot and the characters and all that were fine and very important, but it really had to be about something… and sometimes about something that wasn’t even apparent to begin with. And… I call that a theme.”

— Carl Forman (Cyrano de Bergerac, The Guns of Navaronne, High Noon)