Archive for May, 2014
May
07
2014
 
Screenwriting Quote #187 (John Milius)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaIf I have a gift to the screenwriting world, it’s having a filter to sift through the mountains of material out there and find bit-sized chunks to posts in this internet generation we’re living in. I love digging through interviews and finding these kinds of quotes: “A writer’s greatest fear now is not that he’s […]
May
05
2014
Screenwriting Quote #186 (M. Night)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“For me, writing a screenplay is an important thing, it is a thing unto itself, as opposed to a blueprint for a movie. I take pride in those 120 pages, that the screenplay can be a piece of art all by itself, a thing you can sit down and read, as opposed to just connecting […]
May
02
2014
Postcard #77 (Iowa State Capital)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaThis morning I shot some b-roll footage and photographs of the Iowa State Capital, and when its golden dome has a backdrop of a deep blue sky it’s one of the most beautiful government buildings you’ll find. Scott W. Smith “Let me try to state the basic idea of the regional movement. Each section [of the United States] has a personality of its own, in physiography, industry, psychology. Thinking painters and writers who have passed their formative years in these regions will, by care-taking analysis, work out and interpret in their productions these varying personalities. Grant […] |
