Monday, November 1, 2010
A Lesson From Paddy Chayefsky
Posted on 4:42 AM by christofer D
“When you ask a writer what their story’s about and they give you plot you’re in trouble.”—a paraphrased quote by director Sidney Pollack.
In the 1950s Paddy Chayefsky made a huge splash with a teleplay he had written called Marty. Marty would then become a hit movie and an Academy Award winner.
Chayefsky wrote many things of note in television, film, and theater. He was a writer’s writer (
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