Unlocking Hollywood: Jonathan Lemkin’s Secrets to Crafting Screenplays That Sell
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“If you let your lifestyle expend your last check, you then say yes to a really bad project to keep the checks coming. The quality of your work goes down, your reputation goes down, and it’s harder to get the next job. I’ve definitely taken the wrong job a couple of times, and it’s very hard to do your best work if you’re feeling like, ‘Oh, this is the wrong job.’”
— Jonathan Lemkin
Excerpted from “Tales from the Script”
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