I'm going to be here. If you ever thought about being a screenwriter, take some notes from one of the great movie makers of the past half century, Julie Dash.

I want to dive into some of your skill sets and give advice for other people.

Other folks who want, well I mean like I want to write, I want to write for the screen,

what advice do you have for people who want to be screenwriters?

Take a screenwriting course and so you just become,

you don't have to worry about the formatting anymore.

Where I came from, we had to like the zing, you know,

and now you can just use final draft or something.

People often say write about what you know.

That's not necessarily motivating because I came out of the projects,

right?

I like foreign story, speculative fiction and all that. And that's not what I know, but that's what I'm interested in. So write about what you're interested in and take a writing course just so you

you understand the format and you understand the foundation, a structural

foundation the writing of telling a story, of beginning, middle, and end.

That's what I was telling my students sometimes they didn't have the beginning, and then the beginning,

again, then the beginning, but there's a beginning, middle, and end.

And then just go at it.

Just go at it because even writing is collaborative at this level of the game.

There's someone you're going to need other eyes on it, you know, and then you, so like I don't believe

it and right is block you know, I think that's just a thing that you got, I just

you got here, read his book today. You just go at it and explore and not be afraid to take chances.

And I think it was once probably had a conversation

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