Kaufman on screenwriting

Different writers, similar quotes. A common thread/attitude across the globe - even more so than myth theory and hero journeys.

I have something I'm interested in and then I decide I'm going to explore it. I don't know where the characters are going to go or what the screenplay's going to do. For me, that's the way to keep it alive and make it interesting and worthwhile.

Realistic and naturalistic are not the same thing, and I think it's interesting to play with surrealism or dream logic and try to create a poem, a metaphor, something that sort of conveys a feeling or makes something happen in your gut that you don't necessarily intellectually understand.