SWS Question 3: If a writer living outside of L.A. writes “the right script” do they really have a chance of creating heat in Hollywood? (And what if they live outside the United States?) CHRISTOPHER LOCKHART*: If an out-of-town writer scores a local manager or agent, the writer can certainly see results. However, because the [...]
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One of the side benefits of this blog I started three years ago is it’s given me interesting connections that I didn’t even make when I lived in Burbank. Soon I will be posting interviews I did earlier this year with screenwriters Dale Launer (My Cousin Vinny, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) and Pen Densham (Robin Hood [...]
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“She was known and loved universally as Gertrude Stein, born at Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in 1874, now rests in the cemetery of Pere Lachaise at Paris, along with Balzac, Oscar Wilde, Daumier, Beaumachais, Delacroix, Brillat-Savarin, and countless other writers, painters, and musicians.” Bruce Kellner Baby Woojums in Iowa Watching Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris and Kathy [...]
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“Am I alone in struggling with vulnerability? No. So this is what I’ve learned. We numb vulnerability…We are the most in debt, obese, addicted, and medicated adult cohort in U.S. history. You cannot numb emotion.” Brene Brown TedxHouston Vulnerable: capable of being physically or emotionally wounded Merrian-Webster I just got an email from the Austin [...]
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“Filmmaking is dictated by fear. By financial pressures, temporal pressures, career pressures. You really have to be with people who are close friends, who have the proverbial grace under pressure (and it’s easier with friends), and that’s one reason why some movies turn out better than others. I don’t know that anybody’s ever bothered to [...]
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“I wanted to be a writer, but next in importance to being a writer was to make a living as a writer—very important to me.” Sol Saks “Go back to the Greeks, who had stories of gods coming down to Earth to live with mortals. There are stories in other cultures of angels doing the [...]
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“Identification is also a valuable tool in comedy writing. Used by writers in the sense of ‘to identify with,’ identification means the listener or reader can relate to your characters. This isn’t as circumscribed as it sounds. A middle-aged, white, automobile mechanic does not relate only to middle-age white mechanics. He may relate to a [...]
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In light of the Dallas Mavericks winner there first NBA title last night I thought it would be fitting to find a quote from the teams controversal ower Mark Cuban—the Ted Turner of his day. As an entrepreneur who sold his Internet company vBroadcast.com years ago in a deal worth $5.7 billion, Cuban has a [...]
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According to IMDB, screenwriter David H. Steinberg entered Yale at 16 and earned a law degree from Duke University. After working in entertainment law in Atlanta and New York he headed to LA to pursue a career in film and went to USC graduating in 1998. And just for good measure it says that he’s [...]
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“The budget (for The Station Agent) was $500,000, and yeah, this being my first film did certainly make it harder to raise. Whenever you write an independent film that doesn’t read like a sellable Hollywood script, people get a bit nervous, and if it’s from a first time writer/director then people get nervous, and when [...]
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