“A script is to a movie as a blueprint is to a
building. So many of the things that will later be major, visceral aspects of
the storytelling — cinematography, music, sound effects, costume, performance,
the rhythm of the editing — are only just indicated or assumed, and will be
realized by a team of talented collaborators. The fiction writer has to serve
all those functions alone, with his prose, selecting information so a handful
of notes let readers hear the symphony. A screenwriter creates potential — a
novelist has to fulfill it.”—Indie screenwriter-director-actor John Sayles (The Return of the Secaucus Seven, Eight Men
Out), quoted in “Up Front,” The New York
Times Book Review, Oct. 2, 2011
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