Screenwriting From Iowa

“Listen to the advice of people you trust.” Scott Kelby “This idea of Metallica or some rock n’ roll singer being rich, that’s not necessarily going to happen anymore. Because, as we enter into a new age, maybe art will be free.” Francis Ford Coppola Yesterday SmugMug Films released the above video on photographer, author […]

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“There’s no one to tell you it’s bad. So in your own grandiosity and pride tells you—’Wow this is great; it couldn’t be any better. I think the audience would be comfortable with a two-hour-twenty-minute comedy. Why not?’ Then you show it to your studio or producers and they go, ‘Ooooh. That’s a little long…do […]

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“I would never write about someone who was not at the end of his rope.” Stanley Elkin I’ve always been fond of the above quote by Elkin and I thought I’d add some movies that I know are not only about characters at the end of their ropes, but movies that as of last night […]

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Harold Ramis was one of the co-screenwriters of Back to School so I dug around on the internet to find the most class like talk Ramis gave and this is what I found:

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