It’s a cliché, but the entertainment industry is an industry. Show business is a business. It behoves screenwriters to remember this and to consider why write films in the first place. What makes the cinema experience worthwhile? When deciding whether an idea is worth developing and writing, it’s worth asking first: Is this something I want to see? If the answer’s no, there’s rarely any point in writing. It becomes obvious when a script or film is simply going through the motions of
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