Screenwriting 101: Colin Higgins

“The job of the screenwriter is to run the film in the reader’s imagination. And nothing should get in the way of that. Good prose is the only way to have a reader envision an exciting film. For example, I can’t believe it when I find a sentence without a verb. Verbs are some of the best tools for creating pictures in the imagination of the reader.”

— Colin Higgins (Harold and Maude, Silver Streak, Nine to Five)