Screenwriting 101: Richard Price
“On a strictly technical level, the one thing that never fails to surprise me is how even a little dialogue is always too much. On the page it can look like it flies and then you get in a sit-around in some hotel banquet room where everyone’s doing a read through, about of a third of it just drops like lead balloons from the ceiling. There’s such a difference between written dialogue and spoken dialogue. It’s so hard to capture true life momentum on a page. It can look great in print and then just sound like creative writing in someone’s mouth.”
— Richard Price (The Color of Money, Sea of Love, Freedomland, The Wire)