Kelly Li

“The screenplay is not written in stone remotely. As soon as they’re (actors) hired for the movie, I tell them that they’re free. If there are any speeches they don’t want to do, if there’s anything they want to add or subtract or change, go right ahead and do it. I watch them closely, and if there’s some egregious mistake that they make, I tell them, but most of the time, they don’t. If there’s a joke I wrote or a speech I wrote that embarrasses them to say, they don’t want to say it and they don’t say it and I could care less. They can say it in their own words. If they see a scene and they feel more comfortable doing it their way, they don’t want to walk where I tell them to walk, that’s fine with me. I don’t care as long as the thing gets done believably on the screen. If a guy is going to come home and tell his wife he wants a divorce, I don’t care if they use my words or if the actors comes home and tells his wife in his own way and she responds in her own way, as long as they make it real or exciting or amusing, I’m very very happy… to take credit for it later.” - Woody Allen

I could not agree more. 

Kelly Li