Archive for May, 2016
May
26
2016
 
Filmmakers Full of Magic & IdeasPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“What can you do when you’re absolutely nowhere but feel like you are full of magic and ideas?” Filmmaker Mark Dupass “There’s one thing that keeps coming up to me over and over in my career–this very simple phrase—and I’m going to take a note from motivational speaker Tony Robbins for a second—and were going […] “I’ve been around a long enough also to know that careers are peaks and valleys. And it’s just really all about with how much grace and equanimity you can keep walking along in one direction. Whether you’re marching through the valley of the shadow of death or whether you’re at the pinnacle of whatever, it’s […] “Taxi Driver would definitely not get off the ground as a feature film today. No way…It costs a lot of money to make movies now. At that time, it cost $1 million to make Taxi Driver, and that was a lot of money for then. Now, it’s all about risk aversion, and the global economy that the […]
May
20
2016
‘Make good art…’—Neil GaimanPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive. A freelance life, a life in the arts, is sometimes like putting messages in bottles, on a desert island, and hoping that someone will find one of your bottles […] “Break on through to the other side…” Jim Morrison You can file this post under “Old dog, New Tricks.” Recently we welcomed a 9-year-old Golden-Lab rescue dog named Ginger into our home. It was just about a year after our 15-year-old Golden Retriever Lucy died, and we still had all of her tug toys and […] “The whole goal is to tell our story… Every single day the task of our social media accounts is to help tell the story of what it’s like to be a Clemson Tiger.” Jonathan Gantt Creative Director at Clemson University @ Jonathan_Gantt It’s not only police departments now that have social media departments producing content, colleges athletic […] It’s graduation time and if you happen to be receiving your degree from film school or as a TV or electric arts major I have good news for you. In fact, if you’re gradating from high school and have a couple of years of shooting and editing short projects I also have good news for […]
May
13
2016
Aaron Sorkin’s Survival JobsPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I was 21, maybe I was 22 [when I began writing]. It was shortly after I graduated from college, moved to New York, got a number of survival jobs. I bartended in Broadway theaters, I dressed up as a moose and handed out leaflets. I drove a limousine, I delivered singing telegrams. I did all […]
May
12
2016
Freelancing & Retirement in InstallmentsPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“The etymology of freelance is exactly as it sounds. In medieval days if you were a ‘free lance’ you were a knight without a lord. You were a mercenary. And I loved the idea of going to Hollywood without an agent, without a manager, without a publicist, without a lawyer, and booking as much work as […]
May
11
2016
Poetry, Punch Lines & The GodfatherPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“At a writing workshop, purely as a courtesy, I attended the poetry workshop presented by a friend, University of Hawaii professor Steven Goldsberry…Perhaps the most useful advice Goldsberry gave was to encourage writers to consider every sentence to be a joke, and to remember that jokes end on the punch line. “This is useful to […] |
