Francis Ford Coppola on Writing
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- Excerpt from a 2009 episode of "Hollywood's Best Film Directors" with Francis Ford Coppola.
The filmmaker describes the way he writes scripts and compares writing to "an actor doing an improvisation".
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Write first from the heart. Get it all out of your system. Then go back and READ IT OUT LOUD. Now the real work begins and you can tighten it up and start working on the final draft. Something ive personally learned over the years and from reading loads of awful first draft Amazon Author books.
I do agree and I was thinking the same things, Coppola was a genius and not all of us get it best in the very first draft. Can I ask you something, Should I writer about the character's qualities on a white board first or should I discover it along the way? the later is exciting but it can be a bit random
@@AmusementPerks im awful with world and character building but i think every writer needs to figure out if they are A: A Planer, someone like tolkien who planned it all out and extensively built his world first or B. A PLANTer, someone who literally just sits down and starts writing. I would say dont over think it because then you will never write. again, just write from the heart. i think youll discover your characters on the way and then really get a feel for them once you have to sit down and actually start thinking about it once you get word on page my friend.
Great advice and I never thought I'll get it in a TH-cam comment section
KEY WORDS : Read it out aloud.
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Yes .
@@Calypso694 Hi, try this : Write every day, slowly,write, build Your world,and write and write.....and beware, its addictive but You create ANYTHING, suddenly You re head is source , and : Everywhere around You is Inspiration, DETAILS, behind EVERY thing around You is story, just pick up, take walk in the city with eyes open ...and later write about it- is near around You some interesting historic place? - GO THERE ! Look to the map, on net- and GO !LOOK ! Feel the place, his history.
Good luck,
Me tooooooo. I just completed a draft of a book and I learned to rarely go back and read what I wrote. Just keep going. Don't want to risk breaking the spell.
Yup, and once you have the entire story you are finally qualified to "polish" it, because it's not until there is a completed draft do you actually know your own creation.
Thats a great way of looking at it, I get the sense a lot of writers give this advice, that you need to finish a draft first, and then u can scrutinise and edit and nitpick all you want,
I’m still trying to get out of reading my previous stuff, sometimes I even edit as I go. I gotta try to just write for a long time and then edit it all later
Separate the acts of creating and refining. Let the right brain work, then let the left brain work. Don’t make them step on each others toes
Well said @@paprtigr3
I think I have never been as excited and impatient for the release of a film as I am for "Megalopolis" !!!! :) I hope it will be his greatest film since "Apocalypse Now" !! :) His most daring, hypnotic, profound, visionnary picture since his masterpieces of the seventies !!! :)
It looks stylistically awful
@@taaayoooshave u seen it?
@@taaayooos like someone from the 1930's or 40's predicting what the future would look like.
Grafting Imperial Roman names and symbols onto a modern New York setting, and telling people its a fictional future. The imagery from the trailers looks cliché, and to overt.
Megaflopolis
You're forgetting 'Rumble Fish(1983)' his overlooked indie masterpiece
From "Finding Forrester" (2001) by Gus Van Sant, Adapted by Mike Rich from the Novel by James W. Ellison (2000).
William begins typing at typewriter. Jamal sees him but cannot get himself to begin. William notices, stops his writing.
William
Is there a problem?
Jamal
Nah, I'm just thinking.
William
Oh no. No thinking. That comes later
They continue typing. William VO. Various typing shots.
William
You write your first draft with your heart. Then you rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is to write. Not to think.
He pulls out the completed full page he's just typed, handing it to Jamal.
Cage has said in a recent interview that he channeled his mother for the inspiration of Longlegs.
wow great clip never heard this one and thats some killer advice
I love that this showed up for me today. Usually i’m always anxious and “on the grind” with my writing thinking it’s shit, but the last few days i got my stuff together after 11 months of work and on and of writing, and it’s formed together into something.
It’s still missing things, it’s still needs a huge amount of editing, but i got the heart of it out, and i’m enjoying what it’s becoming and the process. And it’s nice to hear from someone else that that they can just sit back and enjoy the process too.
Coppola’s greatest script was Patton. Simply brilliant.
Is that sammy Wilson
It is like daydreaming. What if, daydreaming.
If your going to get advice in how to write movies. This is really a great example by one of the greatest director/screenwriters in America.
OK that mooseknuckle was tmi
I like this a lot!
FFC with a track pad the struggle is real
Permiscuous imagination. What a great turn of phrase.
Can't wait for Megalopolis
love learning from the greats
Well if we know anything about Mr Coppola’s process, it’s that it works really well a few times early on and then pretty much flops for many many decades.
Never take your writing too seriously. Remember Jack from The Shining: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
The greatest
This guys fantastic
He gives me the impression that he starts from the beginning and steadily works his way through till the end of a first draft. Most writers I know tend to start with bits of scenes here and there, ideas for characters, etc. Then at some point they start a step outline or a beat sheet and keep fiddling with this as they add more bits and pieces of scenes and the story slowly begins to reveal itself and the paths of the characters within it. And then the first draft begins. All-in-all, quite a messy process that doesn't sound like a genius at work when told in an interview, so writers tend to mythologize the process a bit. Problem is a newbie writer hears this stuff and feels frustrated when it doesn't work just like the master said he makes it work.
He's just like me fr fr
In my first book I write 5 drafts until I felt good about it
.....................................daydreaming
i farted into writin
Jurava que era o Murilo Couto
His best movie is "The Conversation." Nothing else comes close.
I just streamed it recently and it was every bit as good as I remembered. And since this interview concerns writing, it’s good to remember that The Conversation is an original written by FFC and not based on a best seller with wonderful characters written by Mario Puzo.
He kinda strikes me as a guy who should take his soda outta the ice box so it don’t freeze
What a hack
🤡
When you get caught between the moon and new york city, the best you can do is fall in love...
I don’t think you know what hack means…