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81 | Why Character "Wants" Matter More Than Almost Anything Else

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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What Does Your Character Want?

There's been a lot in the last I don't have ever many a decade I don't know between you know want versus need and that's a kind of studio executives will ask you. "I just want to reclaim it a little bit today," says writer-director/producer Jonathan Demme. Want is an active thing it comes from a sense of deprivation or something missing it turns into a thirst or a yearning or a hunger or craving which then activates into a hunt for a particular reason seeking search look for. It can also another definition of want is to be in want to be in wants a state of lacking something such as extreme poverty or deprivation.

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