How many hats are you wearing?
If you’re a screenwriter and you’re only ever wearing the screenwriter hat, well, then you're screwed. To make it in this business you need to become good - very good - at wearing different hats.
I guess the title question is a bit misleading. It’s not about wearing different hats at the same time, it’s about having them, and being able to put them on as required by this or that occasion. If I’d have to rank the hats ... I wouldn’t. Take the audience hat, for example. That one’s easily as essential as the screenwriter hat.
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