John Sayles on Screenwriting

John Sayles discusses fitting story to form and structure, how to approach rewriting, and strategies for creative problem-solving.

By Mary Johnson, Renfreu Neff, Jim Mercurio and David F. Goldsmith. This is an edited version of an article which first appeared in Creative Screenwriting, Volume 3, #2 (1996), and Volume 9, #4 (2002). Interviewing John Sayles is like having office hours with a brilliant professor: you don’t chat, you listen. Ask him a question […]