How To Learn Screenwriting Without School by Peter Dukes
Film Courage: How did you learn to write a feature-length script?
Peter Dukes, Writer/Director: I never went to any master programs. I never went to any film programs that specifically taught me my craft. As I mentioned CU [University of Colorado Boulder] was more about film theory and various things like that. It didn’t really teach me in great depth what you need to do as a director or writer. I had to learn all of that on my own. Whether I did it right or wrong, who’s to say? But for me as I alluded to before, I just wrote and wrote and wrote and wrote. Through all of that writing, through all of those years you start to find your own voice. When I wasn’t writing I was reading…again great scripts, different kinds of scripts (the more types the better). Different styles…you never want to get attached to…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
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