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This is great!

I hope this book not only helps me understand how to become a screenwriter, but motivates me to action.

"Movies are only about wanting something, a character wanting something that you, the audience, desperately want him to have. The writer, keep{s} him from getting it for as long as possible, and then, through whatever effort he makes, he gets it. A film works when you, the audience, want something for a character as much as he wants it for himself."

"Movies are only about wanting something, a character wanting something that you, the audience, desperately want him to have. The writer, keep{s} him from getting it for as long as possible, and then, through whatever effort he makes, he gets it. A film works when you, the audience, want something for a character as much as he wants it for himself."