Screenwriting 101: John D. Brancato

“I’ve read screenplays, plenty of them, where the writer obviously hates what he’s doing, and thinks it’s bullshit. That kind of cynicism is pernicious. It hurts the project. It hurts movies in general. So I try not to be cynical about the thing itself — about the screenplay, about the movie — while being cynical about every single other thing attached to it. Staying innocent in the creative process is the thing.”

— John D. Brancato, “Tales from the Script”

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