Unlocking the Secrets of Screenwriting: Allan Durand’s Surprising Formula for Success
“If you’re going to write a screenplay, it better interest the living hell out of you, either the story or the amount of money you’re getting paid, because at some point before you get to the end of it, you’re going to want to quit. It better be a story you love. I just run across something, and it’s just like walking around the corner and seeing a really beautiful woman, it just stops you in your tracks and you say, ‘Whoa.’ When a story idea makes you say, ‘Whoa, then I sit down and write a screenplay about it.”
— Allan Durand
From Go Into The Story interview, January 2013
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