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Writing is everything, the be all and end all of film making.
While beginning a script, approach the film through the character. Theme can come later.
Once a character is created, it weaves the story by itself. The writer just has to follow the character. This happens when the matrix opens itself and shows you the film.
Every character better have an arc. Even hero ka dost.
(Having said that, An actor plays an equal part in the creation of a character, as the writer.)
- Abhishek Chaubey (Udta Punjab , Ishquiya, Dedh Ishquiya )
When we eat a new dish, we learn something. But our main aim is to experience the dish, not to learn. Similarly, when we see a film, it is to experience the film. Not to learn something.
Audience gets connected to a film through a character. Personification of an abstract idea, the emotional connect can happen through character.
A story is more powerful than morals, than truth, than you.
The mind is so vast that it can encompass every kind of character if it is in the form of a story.
A hero is one who is committed to a goal (or to the woman), at the cost of every other thing.
Life avoids conflict. Story cannot do without conflict.
Conflict releases energy for the high of the resolution.
We cannot even walk without conflict between body and gravity.
The basic genre beneath all genres is drama. In realistic films as well as in superman.
Dramatic moments provoke the truth to come out.
Writers are the biggest thieves of reality. She cheats reality. And call it fiction.
Vulnerability and effort in a character endears the audience's empathy, even if he is a murderer. (Norman Bates trying to sink the car with the dead body in psycho)
A writer should introspect for the routine casual prejudice that we carry in our hearts. For it is when we do not acknowledge that its most dangerous.
