You ARE a screenwriter!

Thanks to GITS follower Walter Purvis who sent me an email with this link to a Kevin Smith post. Some great quotes to carry with you in the new year:

When you read a story about this deal happening or this film being announced, the wheels of whatever it is tend to turn v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y. And that’s fair: we are talking about millions of dollars being spent on some dopey, make-pretend bullshit… It’s all ideas at this point — the absolute BEST state of being in the movie biz. Ideas cost NOTHING & require ZERO risk. And yet, oddly, the LEAST amount of time’s usually spent in the idea stage before a small fortune is dumped on a whimsy that’s still half-baked.”

And this one:

Like my sister told me, back when I confessed I wanted to be a filmmaker…

“Then BE a filmmaker,” she said.

“That’s what I’m saying: I wanna be.”

And that’s when she gave me the million dollar advice…

“No — BE a filmmaker. You say you wanna be; just BE a filmmaker. Think every thought AS a filmmaker. Don’t pine for it or pursue it; BE it. You ARE a filmmaker; you just haven’t made a film yet.”

And it sounded artsy-fartsy as fuck, but it was CRAZY useful advice. A slacker hit the sheets that night, but the CLERKS-guy got out of bed the following morning.

You want to be a screenwriter? Then be a screenwriter. Approach your craft like a screenwriter. Per Kevin Smith: You are a screenwriter. You just haven’t sold a script yet.

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