A filmmaker can make a film without a screenplay. He needs just film, a camera and money to develop and print the film.Jean-Luc Godard’s some of the best films were made this way — no script at all, at the most notes scribbled on paper napkins at any cafe. The truth is that most filmmakers do not work this way. There are obvious aesthetic and commercial reasons. Before the cameras roll, they have a script in hand. Thus there is a need for writers.

A script originates as a personal idea. It could be an individual’s idea or a collaboration between writers or between a writer and a filmmaker. This team constructs the script on screen for an audience. A scriptwriter is both an artist and a technician.