I read an interview with a screenwriter, jack Sekowski, and he said:
It's frustrating since I go to the movies and see that most of the stories told are fairly simple. So why am I driven to make things more complex...thereby giving myself more work? I don't know the answer to that.
I sometimes feel exactly the same, but the truth is that even what seems very simple and straight forward on screen is the result of complex thinking, of narrowing too many ideas to one crystal-clear story. A simple movie was once a complex script in someone's mind. How to make the complex into simple, that's the craft of screenwriting.
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