Screenwriting 101: Phil Alden Robinson

“I think it’s one of the reasons that people resent writers is because when we are writing, we are God. When you’re making a movie, the most powerful director is still subject to, the lens won’t do that, the sun just went behind the clouds, the actor doesn’t want to say the line that way, the location, the door opens this way. There’s a thousand things every moment that you cannot control as the director that you could control when you’re the writer. And so it’s one of the reasons I love writing and actually loathe directing.”

— Phil Alden Robinson (All of Me, Field of Dreams, Sneakers)

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