“One of the things that [then Oberlin College] President Starr said to me, which stuck with me, was —’look out into the world and see if there is a gap that needs to be filled, see if there’s something you really want to do that isn’t being done, and then go and do it.’ And […]
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Archive for June, 2013“One of the questions you get asked when you’re a professional filmmaker is, ‘I want to be a director how do I do it?’ And the only real answer to that question is ‘make a film.’ Twenty years ago, even ten years ago it was harder to do that. But with the advancement of digital […] Last year Oberlin was voted the “Best Hometown” in northeast Ohio by Ohio Magazine. The city of just under 10,000 people was founded in 1833 by two Presbyterian ministers, and just happens to also be the place that helped develop two top Hollywood screenwriters. And while the city sits between Cleveland and Toledo you have to […]
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Jailbait, Rejection & Screenwriter Mark Boal’s StartPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I started out in newspapers, went on to narrative nonfiction magazine articles in the late 90′s, and then began trying my hand at screenwriting…In 2002, Kathryn Bigelow optioned a piece I did called ‘Jailbait.’ It became a short-lived TV show on Fox that she directed. That was really my introduction to television and film. The […]
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Screenwriting Quote #54 (Walt Disney)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaAt the beginning of 2012 I decided for various reasons that after blogging everyday for three years that I would take the weekends off from blogging. But that all changes today, in that I will use Saturday’s to do a repost of pervious posts. The idea came to me Thursday after I had a meeting […] |
