After speaking to a few screenwriter friends, I thought it would be cool to start an interactive blog about what producers, managers, agents and anyone who can help greenlight your script into production, really means. Feel free to add to the list. My aim is to create a dictionary of at least 100 expressions these people use and what they really mean. Let’s get the ball rolling:
- I love your work: I’ve only read the first two pages. The use of additional adjectives suggests they have read more.
- Your script is great: I haven’t read your script. Please refresh my memory.
- Thank you for submitting your script: We’re passing.
- Great first draft: Needs a lot of work.
- Thanks for turning in your script so quickly: We hate it, or occasionally, we still haven’t read it.
- We’re really excited: We’re always excited!
- Your script has generated a lot of interest: A few people have read it.
- Your script can be produced at a price: We don’t want to pay you for it.
- Not for us: We love it, but don’t realize it yet.
- Thank you for your time: Go away. We hate it.
- We’re passing: We can’t sell it.
- We’ve got traction: People outside our company are interested.
- No. Yes, no or maybe. If I say yes and it tanks, I’m fired.
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