Today concludes Garry Marshall month and I’ll end with a post that originally ran on October 31, 2012 under the title Garry Marshall Survivor: “Kindness is free.” Garry Marshall Garry Marshall survived bad health as a child. He survived long cold winters in Chicago as a college student. He survived a tour of duty in […]
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Archive for October, 2015“A producer has to make friends fast. A producer’s nothing without a writer, without a director, so go out find them. Get the ones who are coming up and work with them. A producer has to integrate people. A producer has to convince people of the basic sports theory that sometimes you gotta work with people, […] “A lot of people direct one movie and then never do it again, because it’s a pretty strange job. Very difficult in the sense that you can’t keep a consistent emotion. As a producer you can keep a consistent emotion. A producer has to be an adult. That’s why I became a producer at first. […] This post first ran in 2012 with the title Offensive & Defensive Screenwriting: “The biggest lesson a screenwriter can learn is how to master a rewrite of his own script, or someone else’s, and make the change a studio wants without destroying the story. It’s like a football game: If you think of writing an original […] This post first ran in 2012 under the title Telling the Truth=Humor: “Just when I thought I understood how to write a good line, Phil Foster headed me in a different direction. He was one of the first comedians to break out of the traditional one-line joke format and venture into personal narratives. He would talk about […] This post originally ran in 2012 under the title Flaming Rejection: “Be prepared at all times for rejection, even after you break in. One night I was backstage at Jack Silberman’s International Nightclub in New York City. I nervously handed a page of jokes I had written to a famous veteran comedian. He read my jokes […] This post originally ran in 2012 under the title Tasting & Smelling Comedy (Tip#61): “Buddy Hackett held up a matchbook and said, ‘What jokes can you write about this?’ I pitched a few about the advertisement on the outside of a matchbook, then a few behavior jokes about trying to light a match with one hand to […] Producer/writer/director Garry Marshall was raised in the Bronx, educated at Northwestern in Chicago, and kinda broke into the entertainment business with an unlikely group—The United States Army. In an unlikely place—Korea. “Then they sent me to Korea. They didn’t know how to run the radio stations. I was a private but they put me in […] This post ran in 2012 under the title The Odd Monks: “If you pretend the characters can’t speak, and write a silent movie, you will be writing great drama.” David Mamet “Many Odd Couple fans have their favorite episodes, whether they be ‘The New Car,’ ‘Let’s Make a Deal,’ ‘That Is the Army, Mrs. Madison,’ ‘Password,’ ‘The […]
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‘Back to the Future’ in 2015Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“It seems like 2015 kinda sucks.” Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) on Jimmy Kimmel Live 10/22/2015 “Nobody read it said, ‘Oh, we’ve got to make this.’” Bob Gale on the Back to the Future script he co-wrote After thinking about yesterday’s post Garry Marshall’s “Stuckinna” concept he used, some more situations came to mind where […] |
