“Sometimes I'll have a scene that strikes me, I just feel like writing a scene, a mini-story that seems like it might lead somewhere. But that is such a tentative, fishing-hook way to go about it that these days I've found it's easier to kind of at least have your concept and start attaching things to a skeleton. So I try to find the armature, the kind of backbone of it first that you can start to hang those scenes on.” WayFeelsWritingTryingFirstsKindSometimesStoriesSeemsMightFoundEasierSceneConceptsStrikesThese DaysFishingHookBackboneSkeletons Author:Shane Black
“The only way you can stay on top is to remember to touch bottom and get back to basics.” WayRememberBottomGet BackBasicsBack To Basics Author:Shane Black
“Once you've got a concept and a sense of themes and what it's about, then you can start to add your plot and sort of Tetris in all of the elements that you want to see, but also attach them to something that has cohesion, like a mold.” WantElementsConceptsAddThemePlotMoldCohesionTetris Author:Shane Black
“You can just start writing, but you're gonna go off on 10 or 12 starts and weird tangents, and yeah you'll have those pages to use later - to gift wrap some fish for your mother - but either way you're gonna have pages.” WayWritingUseMotherPagesYeahFishesWraps Author:Shane Black
“It sometimes is better to write in a more directed, focused way when the pages are aimed at something already, a mission statement or a basic spine that represents the theme or the concept that you've agreed on, and writing partners are great for that because you can sit there until you get it.” WayWritingSometimesPagesConceptsMissionsFocusedPartnersStatementsThemeSpineMission Statement Author:Shane Black
“I think it's an obligation to make a movie full, so you have to see it twice to get all the moments.” ThinkingMomentsObligation Author:Shane Black
“The logic for me, in writing it is that the different areas or different years are almost like different rooms.” WritingYearsDifferentRoomsAreasLogic Author:Charlie Brooker
“It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.” FeelingsGamesLosingMental IllnessFeel GoodContributionMental PowerNot Feeling Good Author:Garry Kasparov