Archive for November 7th, 2011

“Emotion is your screenplay’s lifeblood.” Karl Iglesias More than 15 years ago Karl Iglesias wrote a book called Writing from Emotional Impact and the first 48 pages alone are worth the 15 or 20 bucks it cost you to buy that book. In those first four chapters he does an introduction on how —”Hollywood is in [...]

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To play off of Se7en director David Fincher’s comment about emotional filmmaking, here is a quote from Alfred Hitchcock: “To be quite honest—content, I’m not interested in. I don’t give a damn about what the film’s about. I’m more interested in how to handle the material to create an emotion in an audience.” Alfred Hitchcock Scott [...]

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