WHY DO YOU WANT TO WRITE A SCRIPT ?

Money ? Forget it. You stand a much better chance with a lottery ticket.
Fame ?  A joke says that a Polish actress was so dumb that she went  to bed with a scriptwriter to get a part. A scriptwriter went to see a

film based on his script. " I recognized only one line " he said coming out of the cinema.
Prestige ?  No way. You probably saw hundreds of movie by now. Name five of the scriptwriters.
Fun – Scriptwring is hard work. Never much fun.

SO WHY .

Because you feel that you must write..

When an artist – of any kind: painter. writer, sculpturer and such – has an idea or a concept he (or she) believes in he has to take it out. He

has to get it out of his system by expressing it in some manner, airing it even if the public does not approve. The artist has the unique

ability of taking 1 plus 1 and makes them a 3. How does it happen? By simple association. The artist experiences something, it bring to mind a

grain of an idea which builds itself into a creation. Think of it as a mother of pearl. How does it create a pearl? All it takes is a grain of

sand which turns itself into a beautiful pearl. This is the way a story, a painting or a sculpture comes to life.

All the above is true only if you were born with the quality of telling stories true or imaginative and the ability to express them on paper.

One can cultivate such talent by studying the art and refining it. One got to know how to build a script. I always think of a skeleton of a

story as the structure of a house. You got the walls, the floors and the ceilings as well as the window, whole line of electricity and

plumbing. Now you got to design the interior of the apartment. Put the contents in your creation.

Now let us assume that you managed to write a script which everyone tells you that it is close to being a masterpiece. What do you do now? You

got to sell it. How? First of all you have to realize that your market is limited to people who are somehow linked to the production side of a

movie. It is almost impossible to get them to look at a script unless it is forwarded to them by an agent. Preferably a reputable agent who

will believe in his talent and is ready to do almost everything to market his creation. Obviously such agent handles writers who already have a

record.

I have written – by now – five full length scripts and close to thirty short ones. Eight of the short scripts were shot in Israel, USA,

England, Wales, Scotland and Australia. Two more are being shot now in the USA and Canada.

One very important hint –
How do you know if your script is on the right track – When you reach page 60 or 70 ( out of around 100 pages. One page = One minute on the

screen ) and suddenly you are no longer in control of the script. The characters begin to lead you. You write a false line of dialogue or wrong

action and you will hear ( at the back of your mind ) the character saying " Sorry friend.you didn't build me this way. I can't do what you

want or speak the line ".