Quote of the Day (Indie Auteur John Sayles, on the Difference Between Film and Fiction)

“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