Dialogue, though, is that one area in which both casual viewers and cinephiles know what is good, bad, and…fine. With that in mind, here are some ways you can take your dialogue to the next level.

Ron Lach/Unsplash. Write what you know: Script ideas are conceived in different ways for everybody, but it all starts with thinking about what you’d like to write about in the first place.Once ...

William Monahan, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of "The Departed," shares invaluable insight on character-driven dialogue, incorporating speech patterns, and the screenwriter as a performer.

Half of the dialogue in my film “CODA” is in American Sign Language. How do you write for a language that has no written form? I didn’t. Not at first. When I started studying ASL, it struck ...

George Lucas once admitted that he couldn’t write dialogue. In a 1999 interview with Empire, Lucas revealed he was one of the people who thought he was bad at writing dialogue.

Write out your script in full sentences or bullet points and prepare answers to any questions you might be asked. You may decide to add a “demo” or just keep it as an outline of what you want ...