
Guillermo del Toro on crafting art and life
Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel
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How Do You Write a Screenplay?
I got a gift in watching so many of your films this weekend because I got to see the conversation happening. Yes. We talk about the relationship between what you're doing on the camera side and what you're hoping the audience is getting on the other end. Imagine that you're writing a passage in a letter or a novel. A certain movement of camera or rhythm of editing is caps or underline or bold. So if you want a moment to have adjectives, you have to use those sounds, colors, movements as adjectives. That for me says there's danger there. Low frequencies hit you in the solar plexus.
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