The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
Salman RushdieIf Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
Salman RushdieOur lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.
Salman RushdieWhen you're writing for the screen you're really thinking all the time of what you have to do to make sure that they have the information that they need, that the emotional thread is not snapped, that the story moves at the right speed, to keep the audience hopefully sitting on the edge of their seats or else weeping or laughing.
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