The skills I had learned for prose didn’t work in film. Those telling details, they’re completely different. Or the fact of these inner monologues in… - Tsitsi Dangarembga

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The skills I had learned for prose didn’t work in film. Those telling details, they’re completely different. Or the fact of these inner monologues in which you can write a whole book. Whereas prose is teasing out, film is stripping down, concentrating and compacting. I found I could not learn the one while doing the other. So it was a big struggle, actually. It took me years.