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Hey there, great episode.
The last topic did leave me wanting to hear more from Roger and James. When you talked about the future of film and the future of cinema, you mentioned that there is too much dialogues in recent film. I really wanted to hear more about that as I feel like there are a lot of great movies that, I feel, have a lot of dialogue. 12 angry men for example, but Tarantino’s movie as well or even some of the Cohen Brothers or Scorcese….
I know you may have talked about it a few times, (as did Dennis Villeneuve not to long ago) but i feel I’m missing something to fully understand your point of view on dialogue. Hope we’ll get to hear you about that soon.
Keep up the great work, love the podcast. Listen to all the episodes and I can’t wait for more.
Would love to hear from Roger, too!
Here’s my take as I finished my first feature screenplay after 3 years: dialogue is the hardest part. I realized that I am not good enough at writing dialogue and reduced it to a bare minimum.
‘Show don’t tell’ can be more time consuming when writing and I believe many screenwriters don’t have the time (or muse) to do so – they rather fall back on mediocre dialogue. I see it a lot and it bothers me, too.
I think dialogue is an art in itself and those who master it are few. You mentioned some, from the top of my head I’d add Aaron Sorkin and George R.R. Martin (though technically not a screenwriter).
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