“Writing a screenplay starts out as a seeking.
We seek the characters and their problems, their inner and outer needs,
their relationships and fears and the threats and risks that their
actions give rise to. And then, after a while, it starts becoming clear
that the problems and needs and fears that we’ve been seeking are in us,
and that what we are involved in is no longer simply a seeking but a
deeply emotional and logical inner exploration, an uncovering of what
was there all along but which we had for whatever reason chosen to
ignore. The light at the end of the tunnel is ourselves and there is no
tunnel. We are the story that is getting ourself told, and it is the
story that is writing us just as much as we are writing it, which is
always perfect at every stage of the process, so long as you are IN the
process, and not gawking at it like some miserable spectator.”
| — | Billy Marshall Stoneking |
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