Peter Straughan | BAFTA Screenwriters' Lecture Series

The writer behind Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Men Who Stare at Goats discusses the complexities of adaptation, and how he strives to weave together "a net of words and silence, images and music" in every script.
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[@zahid1909]

I have hardly come across so powerful sequence of deep narrative of some aspect of knowledge in general, stretching far beyond his terms of reference of this speech so successfully.
A real thinker, and thinks through his own craft. Such people are the gifted ones!

[@rawryfootage1]

loved it, gave me a better understanding of screenwriting.

[@alanelba]

"i wrote the whole film its just, i was the only one who got to see it"

[@jeanjacklemon]

thats just great!

[@IvanAmador62]

Excellent

[@SuperTompo]

that was beautiful.

[@MictheEagle]

Cool guy!

[@MacSmithVideo]

i could listen to him read a phone book.

[@35pacino]

Inspiring.

[@zebunker]

Fictional Jesus Christ, WTF is going on at 6:36. Terrible camera angle. Please hire people that know what they are doing. What a joke.