“A screenplay should describe a movie about 2 hours long (120 – 150 pages). There are exceptions, like The Irishman, but they are rare. There should never be interior emotional reflections in a screenplay. You don’t describe details about what a person is thinking or try to explain complex feelings. It does not tell the director and cinematographer how to set up the shot. A screenwriter might make suggestions such as this is a close up on someone or this is a family at Thanksgiving dinner, but finally, the actual realization of the scene is worked out by the director with his or her cameraman. A screenplay is constructed by a finite number of concise units. The number of units are a function of the length of the movie and the descriptions within a unit should be brief…”
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