First Steps To Rewriting A Screenplay — Paul Chitlik
Paul Chitlik, Author/Screenwriter: You have to understand that you’re writing a document that has to bring a movie into somebody’s head.
Film Courage: What does the word rewrite mean to you?
Paul: Rewrite means this is the process. You have to understand the process of writing a script. No script is perfect the first time out. It always has to be rewritten in some way or another. The way we define rewriting depends on what needs to be done with a script and who we’re writing it for.
If we’re writing it for ourselves and we want to make the best script possible, what we do is we show it to two or three people that we trust, our trusted advisers. We get notes from those people, we get ideas from those people, not from your mother or your best friend or your husband or your wife because they’re going to say whatever they say depending on your relationship with that person. They’re not going to know what kind of notes to give you.
The way we define rewriting depends on what needs to be done…
