Moira Buffini's Screenwriters' Lecture

Friday 16 September

On 16 September, Moira Buffini (Tamara Drewe, Jane Eyre) took to the stage at BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly, for the second in our Screenwriters' Lecture Series.

Screenwriters' Lecture Series - Moira Buffini

Buffini on drafts: "The rewriting is the real writing. I never count the numbers of drafts." (Picture: BAFTA / S. Butler)
Screenwriters' Lecture Series - Moira Buffini

"Screenplays are unusual documents. So few read them. But they are read in such detail." (Picture: BAFTA / S. Butler)
Screenwriters' Lecture Series - Moira Buffini

"I write in libraries mostly. I like writing where there are people." (Picture: BAFTA / S. Butler)
Screenwriters' Lecture Series - Moira Buffini

"The theatre is a wonderful place to find your own voice." (Picture: BAFTA / S. Butler)
Screenwriters' Lecture Series - Moira Buffini

"A good development exec will listen, protect the material and be the writer's closest confidante." (Picture: BAFTA / S. Butler)
Screenwriters' Lecture Series - Moira Buffini

Buffini on editors: "They do with pictures what we do with words." (Picture: BAFTA / S. Butler)
Screenwriters' Lecture Series - Moira Buffini

"If ever there was excellent training for being a writer, it's being an actor." (Picture: BAFTA / S. Butler)
Screenwriters' Lecture Series - Moira Buffini

"I fully expect my work to get slapped around a bit when working for Hollywood." (Picture: BAFTA / S. Butler)
Screenwriters' Lecture Series - Moira Buffini

"Know and respect your genre in film." (Picture: BAFTA / S. Butler)
Screenwriters' Lecture Series - Moira Buffini

Buffini with Jeremy Brock, the lecture series' curator. (Picture: BAFTA / S. Butler)
Screenwriters' Lecture Series - Moira Buffini

(Picture: BAFTA / S. Butler)