10 Screenwriting Tips from Richard Linklater on how he wrote The Before Trilogy and Boyhood

Screenplay competitions👇 📝🏆 Now OPEN for submissions‼️ 👉 ✅ ✅👈 Submit your TV PILOT 📺 👆or your SHORT script ✍️📝 Richard Linklater is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. His films include Dazed and Confused (1993), the Before trilogy romance films - Before Sunrise (1995), Before Sunset (2004), and Before Midnight (2013), the animated films Waking Life (2001) and A Scanner Darkly (2006), the coming-of-age drama Boyhood (2014), and the comedy film Everybody Wants Some!! (2016). 0:00 - Intro 1:46 - 1. Your film can be a collection of memories. As long as you make sure there Is an investment in the characters, the audience will find these memories As significant as the person recalling them. 3:19 - 2. Recall memories from your past and recycle things from your own Experience from that time. Use autobiographical things as a starting Off point. 5:21 - 3. Cram a lot of interesting things that happened to you over time into one Night for your screenplay
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