Questions: What Quality Makes a Great Screenwriter?

Filmmakers share what makes a great screenwriter.
In each episode of QUESTIONS, a different group of filmmakers answer a single question asked by the Academy.
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[@jag5798]

A great screenwriter is dared to write about what others wont and without a bias view. The screenwriter is the journalists of today.

[@FiadhMelina]

This channel is gold

[@roathripper]

a great screenwriter is someone who knows how to rip off the classics and get away with it.

[@timothyclark5900]

RoathRipper lol

[@Big_Chef_Dawg]

RoathRipper J.J Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan

[@reelbadassstudios4839]

So most of Taratino's filmogrophy?

[@レッド-h1i]

Quentin Tarantino.

[@TrueVintageRnBFan]

Wow... yet so true.

[@jaguar2012equinox]

GOTTA HAVE THE COURAGE TO ACCEPT TRUTH AND TELL IT WITH YOUR HEART CREATIVE ABILILITY TO CAPTURE THE AUDIANCE FROM START TO FINISH

[@VibingCat39]

#1 is excellent mental vision, you have to be great at creating things in your head before you can create them in reality.

[@susanmacrae4639]

interestingly, they are describing what makes a great poet as well.

[@subhasaha8988]

I think the ability to visualize before its even acted/played. - Again who am I :D :D

[@triggerd7385]

SO EVERYTHING???

[@grthomas9662]

didnt know joel edgerton was australian

[@two-moonz2953]

Australian? Thank God I thought he was having a stroke.

[@wall-eDefense]

Bless me for my success 🙏🇮🇳❤

[@greatkinolubitel]

Seems half of the people are mirrored here. What for? They've got no idea people's faces being far from symmetrical?

[@KING-ri2vs]

*Good screenwriters copy.*
*Great screenwriters steal.*

[@richardxob]

molly shannon got old

[@nymphoselecta]

this is why I'm going to be a screenwriter!