ABSTRACT
"Young screenwriters forget they’re writers,” Mark Spragg told the author. “They believe too much in craft—form—and not enough in the art of the piece. It is organic.” Messy. Mysterious. Ultimately, creating a screenplay and film that connect is a mysterious process. And the act of connecting with others, Peter Weir suggests, may be more unconscious than conscious. Screenwriting is a challenge to have enough logic without inhibiting the unconscious. Academy Award winner Nicholas Kazan says in American Screenwriters: In essence, there are no rules with film. It’s like a dream: it can take many different forms. The important thing is that what happens should be continually surprising and in retrospect seem inevitable.
