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Screenwriting from Iowa- Love and Torture in ScreenwritingYou’ve got to have a story and characters the audience will love. [Oscar-winning screenwriter] Callie Khori invited me to speak to the screenwriter’s guild and she said ‘you make a movie by making the audience love the characters and then you torture them.” Dr. Art DeVany (Former UCLA economics professor who created mathematical and statistical models to […] […]Scott W. Smith
- Love and Torture in Screenwriting
