Screenwriters' Lecture Series 2013: Hossein Amini

When I’m sitting down and start typing, I don’t feel that I’m writing an invitation for collaboration. I don’t feel like I’m writing a blueprint or an instruction manual. And when it’s really working, I don’t feel like I’m writing a screenplay.

I feel that I am transcribing a film that only I’m watching.

It’s the whole film, all the images, the sounds, the music, but all only very dimly seen. So it’s Plato’s Cave over the DVD player. The script is just an attempt to capture a film that one person saw once.

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