A Klingon stopped by River Run Productions yesterday. This is not an everyday occurrence in Cedar Falls, Iowa. On Monday, I shipped off a hard drive of footage for the largest client I’ve ever worked for, and Tuesday morning I got a call [...]
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2011
 
Screenwriting Quote #161 (Frank Pierson)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“At each level you reach, you have to tear up what you have done before, which cost an enormous amount of psychological and emotional energy. That makes the process of screenwriting very, very difficult. And I don’t know any screenplay that I have ever worked on where I did not go through ten to twelve [...] If you were wondering why the daily posts last week seemed to come out only late at night, last week was one of those 80 work weeks. I was field producing for a national client with a nondisclosure form and all. (I should check to see if I’m allowed to disclose that I signed a [...] “Ask yourself a most important question before you begin: What is about? I do not mean the plot, the arrangement of events, or eve the characters. I don’t mean who it’s about, but what’s it about. What are you saying in this story? What is your point of view? What is there about this story [...] |
