Screenwriting 101: Marshall Brickman

“The first script of Annie Hall was much more episodic, tangential, and novelistic… We started to become interested in the love story between Woody and the Keaton character, which was all over the place. We cut and pasted to make the love story more important, and the structure emerged. The material was telling us what to do.”

 — Marshall Brickman (Sleeper, Annie Hall, Manhattan)