Screenwriting From Iowa

“Most of the screenplays I’ve written have not been made. And the ones that haven’t been made I’ve worked very, very hard on, believed in and loved, and thought they were good, but they haven’t been made. Or you know I’ve handed them in and then somebody years later has made it with a different […]

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[Jim Sheridan] said—we we’re talking about playwriting— and he said the ending should be like a magnet. When you stop and think about that you get this piling of iron filings over here—which are the scenes and the characters, and the words which lift up—and when you get close to the magnet they get more […]

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“I was commissioned to write a sketch show in the mid-eighties –’85-‘86—and did so with a lot of weeping and gnashing of teeth and it was I suppose kind of a signal, and I suppose the most important thing I ever did because it was such a massive failure. There were all kinds of reasons […]

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