“My first eight to 10 scripts were pretty horrendous.” Oscar-nominated screenwriter I’ll reveal at the end of the post The University of Miami and the University of Florida football teams play today. It’s an old rivalry that’s not as potent as it used to be, but between the two schools they’ve won eight football national […]
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2013
 
Filmmaking Quote #37 (Samuel Fuller)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death…In a word, emotion.” Writer/director Samuel Fuller (1912-1997) Related Post: 40 Days of Emotions Scott W. Smith Tagged: Samuel Fuller
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One Swedes Major Impact on CinemaPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Me sitting down for dinner with Ingmar Bergman felt like a house painter sitting down with Picasso.” Woody Allen Esquire Magazine Woody Allen: What I’ve Learned by Cal Fussman “If you were alive in the 50s and the 60s and of a certain age, a teenager on your way to becoming an adult, and you wanted […]
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2013
Unconscious Writing (Tip #82)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“What people who don’t write don’t understand is that they think you make up the line consciously — but you don’t. It proceeds from your unconscious. So it’s the same surprise to you when it emerges as it is to the audience when the comic says it. I don’t think of the joke and then say […]
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2013
“Network” Notes by Paddy ChayefskyPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I think what I’m trying to say [in Network] is, ‘How do you preserve yourself in a world where life really doesn’t mean much anymore?’ That’s what I was trying to say. The trick is, of course, to say it so that it’s a good movie.” Paddy Chayefsky Interview with Dinah Shore “It’s impossible to […] “I think what I’m trying to say [in Network] is, ‘How do you preserve yourself in a world where life really doesn’t mean much anymore?’ That’s what I was trying to say. The trick is, of course, to say it so that it’s a good movie.” Paddy Chayefsky Interview with Dinah Shore “It’s impossible to describe […] “The toughest athlete in the world is a 62 year-old woman.” D.L. Stewart, Dayton Daily News “It was an old dream. It was lingering for so long—three decades ago . The only world-class swim that I had sort of tried and failed at in my early 20s was going from Cuba to Florida. It was deep […] |
