Screenwriting 101: Jeanie Macpherson
“Each scene must be a drama in itself. The whole picture must be made up of a series of small dramas. This makes the completed picture a mosaic of little ones. Scenes that have no dramatic value in them, or say nothing, must be eliminated. So the scenario writer must bear in mind at all times not what he can put into a picture, but what he can leave out.”
— Jeanie Macpherson, screenwriter from silent picture era, quote from “Empire of Dreams” by Scott Eyman
Quote suggested by Patrick Sweeney at his screenwriting blog I Blame Ninjas