“I never studied writing. I never studied screenwriting. I just hear voices and I see visions, and instead of being locked up I’m a screenwriter.” Nick Kazan The Dialogue Interview: Learning from the Masters (Part 1) interview with Mike De Luca “I don’t like roller coasters.” Kevin Hart In the first part of that interview on […]
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“Chainsaw captures the syntax and structure of a nightmare with astonishing fidelity. The quality of the images, the texture of the sound, the illogic by which one incident follows another —all confirm to the way we dream. No one’s done that before, at least not in a commercial, mass market movie…What makes Chainsaw interesting is […]
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“It’s a strange moment, the moment of creating characters who up to that moment have had no existence. What follows is fitful, uncertain, even hallucinatory, although sometimes it can be an unstoppable avalanche.” Harold Pinter (1930-2008) I planned to start a run of posts on screenwriter Nick Kazan today but as I was listening to […]
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After LeBron James announced in a letter to Sports Illustrated he was returning to play basketball in Cleveland, comedian Frank Caliendo read the letter on ESPN’s Mike and Mike show in the voice of Morgan Freeman. I decided it would make a nice mash-up to combine all of those with a few scenes from The […]
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“Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately connect us.” Robert Redford, Sundance Institute President and Founder “It seemed like an age old story made new.” Director Jessee Moss (on not Hercules, but his doc The Overnighters) It’s really not a fair fight. The tag team of Hercules and Lucy will be playing today in 6,762 […]
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“There’s a little bit of pink and blue coding that goes on in the film business in terms of material that you’re offered for sure.” Robin Swicord
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Part of the craft of screenwriting is to write in such a pity way—it’s almost like being a combination of a poet and a journalist,” Robin Swicord
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“I think it’s impossible to be a writer and not draw from your own life…I see shadows all of the time in my work—things from my life.” Robin Swicord “I see shadows of certain characters from script to script. I’m interested in ambition certainly. I see that strain running through [my work]—like The Rivals* a script […]
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“I want to do something splendid…something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead. I don’t know what, but I’m on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.” Louisa May Alcott (Little Women) Filmmaker Edward Burns once said filmmaking is “overcoming obstacles”—here’s the expanded version of that concept from […]
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“Protagonists have to be active, they’re making their own fate all the time.” Screenwriter Robin Swicord (Little Women) “David Mamet says the one question an audience asks is WHAT’S NEXT? I agree. Let each scene drive the story forward. Make sure each moment is vital no matter what page it’s on.” Ken Levin (M*A*S*H, Cheers, […]
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