Screenwriting 101: William Goldman
“I don’t know what it means, a ‘perfect script’. I think you want to basically figure out the fucking story and stay on the story as long as you can and as closely as you can, and end it. When you start telling yourself, ‘I want to write a great story,’ all you’re gonna do is castrate yourself and get into deeper and deeper trouble. It’s hard to do anyway. It’s no fun going into your pit everyday and try to get 2 or 3 or 5 pages. ‘Coz some days you don’t do anything. Then you think, ‘Why’? Then what if you have two crappy days in a row, then you’re really in deep shit. You just want to get it done and you pray someone will like it.”
— William Goldman