The dialouge. as most teenagers my idols are Kevin Smith and Quentin Tarantino. and everytime i get the oppertunity to create creative dialouge like those two i love it. it's amazing how easy it is and it's amazing how natural it sounds. i mean all you really need is an old show or a song to talk about. the rest writes itself.

I'm a HUGE Tarantino and Smith fan as well. The hard part about writing that way though, is making it sound realistic, because if it's banter about an uninteresting topic or is done the wrong way, it can be rather boring. But Tarantino and Smith are prime examples of two guys who got it down. I love writing dialogue.

I love escaping into my own little world where I have control. It is an outlet for creativity and emotion and allows you to step into the shoes of the characters you create to vent frustration, live vicariously, or just have fun in ways you would never be able to in the real world. It allows impossible outlandishness, and the time to think before you act. When it's all done and someone takes this jewel to make it something to watch, you get to see something you created before your eyes and remember not only what it was like when you wrote it and how you felt then, but also to experience all anew when your visual senses get ahold of it too.

I love screenwriting because I get to control something and kill people at will.  It's like imaginary dictatorship.  But serious, that's why.  I like being about to make things happen that nobody else has made and add my own little twist to the demented world of my stories.  I also enjoy subtle social commentary, just to sound smart.

Screenwriting is both an escape and a challenge.
How to duplicate life, yet make it something more.
How to go wild, but in my case, keep it grounded.
And I get to spin the story in any direction.
The challenge is to do it so others are saying "Cool," rather than "huh?"
I gravitate toward horror, but I'm better at setting up... than delivering the kill.
Just the opposite of most.
But that's part of the fun.
Keep working, keeping improving.

hey  that's funny because i'm better at delivering the kill than to set it up.

I first got into screenwriting after reading the screenplay "The Color Purple"

As a kid, a teacher of mine gave me a copy because of a story that I wrote.I read it and was amazed.Then two weeks later we watched the film version in class.I again was amazed!The way the descriptions were translated and the emotions just sent me flying!Ever since then I was hooked.

The thing I most like about screenwriting is that it is so visceral.You create the characters and then hundreds of people band together to make a story that will affect millions of people in all the different ways that the person views their own world.

Whisper your scream! Scream your whisper!

We all have a story to tell, let's tell it!

One side note: This teacher I am talking about was great about taking contemporary forms of literature and making it real for us...for example she made us read a poem called " Hotel California" one day and we had to analyze it and write a critique, then one day we walked in and a song was playing on the tape deck...She asked if anyone recognized it, and of course non of us did but after wards she replayed it and handed out the lyrics...It was "Hotel California" by the Eagles.That made it real for us, from that day forward.I mean the importance of literature in all its forms.

I like  being able to shock or upset, or just affect people who read my scripts.

It's all about being able to create something. When you are writing the script, you have total control, like Stephen and George said. You can make the characters do literally whatever you want. I love that, the total creative control. And I love that it's an escape.

I love screenwriting and writing in general because it allows me to create my own world and twine my beliefs into them like C. S. Lewis did with Narnia and Tolkien with "Rings." Though most of the scripts like that of mine got shocked a few weeks ago because they were on our other comp...so they're gone.

And I love screenwriting because it allows me to slip away from whatever might be going on and live in my characters shoes...

Eh, I love it for many other reasons, but I must go...

-Chris

Yeah, I love screenwriting because I'm free to be nuts any time and my family and my firends didn't notice that at all!

my theory about screenwriting is simple: we ALL dreams - but only some of us dare to write it down, to admit: yeah, thats real me! that whats going on in my head, what bites me, where I'd like to be, what I'd like to do, this is a perfect woman, I hate this, I love that... etc...


at least thats why I love screenwriting - I can write everything whats really happening in my head, and everybody thinks that I should be locked in mental hospital but they won't send me there...

i don't think that should be your motivation. i mean tarantino writes racist characters but he's not racist himself.

The way I look at it if I can't entertain people I failed to do my job (For lack of a better term)  When someone says in a round-about way that it was entertaining theirs just nothing as satisfying as that for me.

Selling something is Ok but knowing that somebody cares is much better. Hollywood buys a lot of shit but your peers don’t buy the same stuff as readers.