Screenwriting 101: Taylor Sheridan

“I have 50 great ideas but what helps me choose what to write is knowing how it ends. You gotta know how it ends. You don’t have to know exactly the mechanics of the journey but you have to understand the journey of the hero — like how is he or she different? What does it cost them, what do they gain? And then what are you trying to say? The movies that move me the most don’t tell me what to think but ask a lot of questions. I’ve sat down a lot of times with a great idea and somewhere around the middle of the second act, the well runs dry and you realize you didn’t know where you were going. And I’ve got 10 of those sitting on my desk. Every now and then you have an idea that answers the whole thing. But yeah, for me, I gotta know where I’m going.”

— Taylor Sheridan (Hell or High Water)

From Co.Create