148 | Jodie Foster on Building Truthful Characters
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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The Importance of Having an Answer to a Question in a Movie
"I need to have every one of those characters be a reflection of some part of me," he says. "You can't understand the protagonist, of course, until you understand why that what the antagonist is doing in the movie" If there's a prop that's highlighted in the script, it better be meaningful, director adds.
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