Screenwriting 101: Sophia Lopez

“A lot of people are like, ‘I don’t want to be too conventional. I want to do something really mind‑blowing.’ But it’s like, ‘If you don’t know the conventions, you can’t do anything mind‑blowing, because you don’t know what the conventional way is to begin with.’”

— Sophia Lopez

Go Into The Story interview, August 2022

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