A must read for anyone interested in screenwriting.
I tried to write in an extremely spare, almost haiku style, both stage directions and dialogue. Some of it was a bit pretentious — but at other times I thought it worked pretty well.
When I’m working alone, the old hard way. Longhand. Fountain pen. Legal pad. Thesaurus at my side.
This last item, I’m not ashamed to say, is quite helpful — when you write screenplays, you don’t have a lot of room, and the stage directions can become onerously repetitive if you don’t work at fresh descriptions.
Walter Hill
