Guillermo Arriaga's Screenwriters' Lecture
Monday 26 September
On 26 September 2011 at the BFI Southbank, BAFTA presented a further installment in its Screenwriters' Lecture series. The speaker was Guillermo Arriaga. Arriaga is famous for fragmentary, non-linear narratives. His work includes such films as Babel and 21 Grams. Some images taken during his lecture are presented below...
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Screenwriters' Lecture Series - Guillermo Arriaga
"The process of discovering art is the same as of discovering love: you need surprises." (Picture: BAFTA / J. Birch)
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Screenwriters' Lecture Series - Guillermo Arriaga
"I like to write scenes in a dialectic way. Each character enters a scene with a different dramatic objective." (Picture: BAFTA / J. Birch)
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Screenwriters' Lecture Series - Guillermo Arriaga
Arriaga on Babel's director: "Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu is a brilliant director with whom I disagree profoundly." (Picture: BAFTA / J. Birch)
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Screenwriters' Lecture Series - Guillermo Arriaga
"I don't do any research. I'm not interested in knowing where my characters 'come from'." (Picture: BAFTA / J. Birch)
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Screenwriters' Lecture Series - Guillermo Arriaga
Arriaga on new trends: "I told Tarantino, 'you've ruined cinema - everyone's trying to write dialogue only you can write.'" (Picture: BAFTA / J. Birch)
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Screenwriters' Lecture Series - Guillermo Arriaga
The event was held at the British Film Institute in London. (Picture: BAFTA / J. Birch)
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Screenwriters' Lecture Series - Guillermo Arriaga
"Each story has a different way to be told. If the classical three part structure works, great. If not, so what?"(Picture: BAFTA / J. Birch)
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Screenwriters' Lecture Series - Guillermo Arriaga
(Picture: BAFTA / J. Birch)
