“How did I learn screenwriting? Endless hours at the typewriter, then the computer, which came along later. It was really a lot of applied time and effort and self-study. Which is the way most people learn.”
Oscar-nominated screenwriter Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption)
The Best of Creative Screenwriting Interviews
P.S. I think “endless hours” fits the 10,000 hour rule. See the post Beatles, Cody, King and 10,000 Hours.
P.S.S. Another related quote is from Oscar-nominated screenwriter Sheldon Turner from the post Up In the Air (Part 2): “I never took a (screenwriting) course, what I did was read every screenplay I could get my hands on. And I tell people go find the crappy screenplays because they are abundant man. And that was what my inspiration was to a degree. So I wrote 12 screenplays before I gave one to anybody.”
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