Screenwriting 101: Philip Dunne

“If you get an idea in the middle of the night, it’s a good idea to get up and write it down, or it’s gone. There’s a famous story about a writer who always swore he got up and wrote his ideas down. He had a wonderful idea in the middle of the night once, got out his pad and pencil, and wrote it down. He went back to sleep — slept like a baby. He woke up, and he had written: ‘boy meets girl.’”

— Philip Dunne excerpted from “Backstory”