When I tell people I’m a screenwriter, people think I’m automatically artistic, but hell no. I like being part of a team, and I like having a skill that the team values. It’s like laying bricks, and I try to be the best bricklayer I can. Stephen McFeely Read Quote
Screenwriting, as a whole, tends to be more objective. In a novel, you can have chapters of stream-of-consciousness writing that add depth to the plot and characters. Film doesn’t allow for that by its nature, at least in the long form. Stephen McFeely Read Quote
Telling a story inherently has bias because of perspective and the way the story is told. Stephen McFeely Read Quote
Our basic ideology coming into screenwriting was to write first and revise slowly, and things just came into place after that. Stephen McFeely Read Quote
Anytime you tell a story about someone who has made a hard, fast decision, if you’re telling an honest story, over time that hard, fast decision is probably gonna become opaque, and they are going to see the downsides of the choices they’ve made. Stephen McFeely Read Quote
