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Write On: 'Inside Out 2' Co-Writers Meg LeFauve and Dave Holstein
“People think sequels are easier, and I’m like, ‘No, no, it’s much harder. It is much harder to write.’ They have never written sequels, those people, because you need to do everything as well as the first and yet better, and go to new places, follow...
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Write On: 'The Boys' Creator and Showrunner Eric Kripke
“The most subversive thing this show could do is make you cry… If you really boil down television, really cook it in the pan, it’s the character business. I’m in the character business. Movies are in the plot and spectacle business, for television, t...
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Write On: 'Conclave' Screenwriter Peter Straughan
“If everything’s being played on the surface, it’s very hard to make that character come to life. You want hinterland, you want subtext. You want the things that are buried, the things that we don’t know about them, the things that maybe they don’t k...
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Write On: 'Only Murders in the Building' Co-Creator & Showrunner John Hoffman
“There’s no greater laugh than when you’re at your most vulnerable. You’re at a funeral, or you’re in church and something’s happening and there’s great reprieve from the most human moments through humor. And even in those moments, something is funny...
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Write On: 'Dune: Part One & Part Two' Screenwriter Jon Spaihts
“In most genre fiction where heroes and villains clash, the hero is intrinsically reactive. The villain starts making trouble and that’s the beginning of the story. If the villain had never showed up, the hero would have lived a pleasant and unremark...
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Write On: 'Nosferatu' Writer & Director Robert Eggers
“As someone who’s been obsessed with vampires since I was a little kid, I don’t totally know [why we love vampire movies so much]. Obviously, sex and death are always interesting and in vampire stories, including the very earliest accounts of folk va...
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Write On: 'Deadpool & Wolverine' Writer & Director Shawn Levy
“I would argue that the movies, the plays, the stories that endure and certainly that resonate in the most populist and global way are the ones where we’re not just observing a piece of storytelling, we’re participative in some way and it’s connectiv...
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Write On: 'Nickel Boys' Writer & Director RaMell Ross
“What happens when you disassociate? What happens when you’re separate from yourself? What happens when you’re no longer yourself? Is there a camera language that can embody that, that can execute that? In the film, when Elwood walks into the white h...
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Write On: 'The Bikeriders' Writer and Director Jeff Nichols
“You’re reading these interviews [in the book The Bikeriders by Danny Lyon] and they’re all interesting, but Kathy’s are just fascinating. You could just tell she was a character, meaning she was just this interesting, dynamic person, a person that w...
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What’s new in Final Draft 13?
WRITING GOALS &
PRODUCTIVITY STATS
Set goals and get valuable insights to take your work to the next level
TYPEWRITER
A new typewriter-like view option improves your focus
EMOJI
Craft more realistic onscreen text exchanges and make your notes more emotive
And so much more, thoughtfully designed to help unleash your creativity.
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