Inside the Mind of Theodore Melfi: Secrets to Screenwriting Success Revealed
As a writer and as a director, your sole purpose in life is to make your work for the audience, period. This business, this work that we do, is not for ourselves, and it’s not for the critics, and it’s not for the Hollywood community. It’s for the world.
I was at a screening [of Hidden Figures] in Los Angeles, at the back of the theater. The movie ended, and a black woman — probably in her mid-50s — was walking down the aisle, crying and crying and crying. I just stopped her and I said, ‘Are you okay?’ She said yes, and she found out that I’m the director. I just hugged her. I didn’t know what else to do. And she goes, ‘This film has given me the strength to carry on.’
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