| Untagged | 14 Aug 2008 |
| How do ideas become a script? by david | |
How do you find your ideas, and how do you form them into a script?
That’s a beautiful question. I think a desire for an idea is like a bait. And I say it’s like fishing. You desire an idea. And when you go fishing, you know you have to have patience. And you bait your hook, and then you just kind of wait. But the desire is that bait that pulls those fish in—those ideas. And the beautiful thing is: when you catch one fish that you love, even if it’s a little fish—a fragment of an idea—that fish will draw in other fish, and they’ll hook to it. And then you’re on your way. And more and more and more fragments, the more the whole thing starts to emerge more quickly. But I think it starts with a desire.
Also, ideas can hit you just when you come around the corner—something you see, sometime it just hits: an idea comes. I don’t know the sure way, but a lot of times, desiring it is like the bait that brings it in.
