"You sell a screenplay
"You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it ."
Rita Mae Brown (1944 - )
U.S. Author & Feminist
"The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location."
Flannery O'Connor (1925 - 1964)
U.S. Fiction Author
By Cyndi Greening. Phoenix, Arizona USA (Cinema Minima) -- While I was in college (the second time), I had the lead role in a play based on the writings of Flannery O'Connor. Based on O'Connor's REVELATION, I played a narrow-minded, righteous, bigoted country woman who gets her comeuppance in a pickup truck stalled in the crossroads.
I didn't know much about the southern communities of which Ms. O'Connor wrote but I certainly understood the rigidity of rural, small-town America. It was both flattering and horrifying to have people tell me how wonderful I was in the role (I wasn't that old, at the time). Today, I was looking for writing inspiration because, tomorrow, I'm starting a new screenplay that I plan to produce independently. I'm planning to blog about it in some detail. Let's see if I can find that "peculiar, eternal crossroads" for this film.
