“I would say I was about eigtht-years old, I was sitting on my stoop with a friend of mine. We were having cookies and milk, and we were talking and we were fooling around. And I said something funny and he laughed and spit the cookies and milk all over my face, and hair and [...]
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Jul
19
2011
 
Imagineering with Walt DisneyPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaI grew up on a dead-end street. (Well, technically it was a cul-de-sac, but that sounds less dramatic.) I didn’t watch much television or travel much as a child. In fact, until I graduated from high school most of my life was lived within ten mile radius of my home. Which was fine with me, [...] Today a college professor asked me if I’d come and speak to his class about alternative forms of writing—specifically, blogging. We talked about my 1,000 posts and I told him that if someone would have asked me when I started how many posts I thought I’d write, I might have be ambitious and said 100. [...] Never did I think when I jumped into the blogging world with my first post back on January 22, 2008 that I’d end up writing 1,000 posts. But that’s where we are today on Screenwriting from Iowa…and Other Unlikely Places. 1,000 posts. Not sure I’ll have the energy, time or desire to do this again. [...]
Jul
16
2011
Writing Quote #28 (H.G. Bissinger)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I wrote Friday Night Lights when I was 33. I am now 55. Haunts me every day. Best thing that ever happened. Worse thing that ever happened…I want to be known for something more than that.” H.G. Bissinger via Twitter & Houston Chronicle interview As much as H.G. Bissinger would like to be known for something [...]
Jul
15
2011
Remembering the “Friday Night Lights”Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Odessa is the setting for this book, but it could be anyplace in this vast land where, on a Friday night, a set of spindly stadium lights rise to the heavens to so powerfully, and so briefly ignite the darkness.” H.G. Bissinger Friday Night Lights, A Town, a Team, and a Dream To the creators [...] “Imagine contributing good 2 one person, place, or thing today- then do it. The creative life as a catalyst for changing the world. Consider.” @charliepeaccok Tweeter tweet 7/13/11 The problem with superlatives is they tend to undercut what you are writing or saying. Usually when I heard someone walk out of a concert or a [...]
Jul
13
2011
Filmmaking Quote #21 (Spielberg)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I like to do my own casting. I think eighty percent of what you contribute to the film is in the selection of the actors.” Steven Spielberg Directing the Film written by Eric Sherman Page 69 “I got a job delivering papers in Pasadena, and pretty soon, by reading the ad sections, I found out about an opening with a traveling ensemble called the Bishop’s Company. I decided to give it a shot, thinking that this might be a way to really get out. at the audition they gave me a [...]
Jul
11
2011
Filmmaking Quote #20 (Gale Tattersall)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaThe past three days I caught a large chunk of the creativeLive HD-DSLR workshop that featured director of photography Gale Tattersall. The emphasis was on shooting with cameras like the Canon 5D with a large portion dedicated to lighting and low-budget filmmaking. Tattersall made some waves last year when he shot the season finale of [...] |
