Screenwriters' Lecture Series 2015 brochure: Nancy Meyers

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HOSSEIN AMINI Working with actors once the script has got to a certain stage is something I’d love to be able to keep doing. I think they have certain insights and ideas, and, ultimately, they’re the people who will have to say those lines. I’ve become much less precious about nailing the dialogue in drafts one or two, because I know at some stage they’re going to want changes to fit their patterns of delivery. It’s great to be part of that process.

DAV I D S G OY E R Write what you feel passionate about not what you think the market is dictating. At the end of the day, I believe good writing, and passionate writing, will always win out.

JAMES SCHAMUS The words on the page, the textual linearity of them, are really the matrix for the introduction of capital into the process. And that means that at that moment something else happens. Those words become not simply words and not simply inspired creations, but they become a place where we conflate two separate ideologies and two separate economic practices.

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