“I try to make my screenplays as readable an experience as I can.” William Goldman Both Aaron Sorkin and Tony Gilroy talk about one of the important things they learned personally from William Goldman was trying to give the reader of their scripts the same experience emotionally as they would get from watching the movie. […]
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“I try to make my screenplays as readable an experience as I can.” William Goldman Both Aaron Sorkin and Tony Gilroy talk about one of the important things they learned personally from William Goldman was trying to give the reader of their scripts the same experience emotionally as they would get from watching the movie. […]
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“I was so programmed to fail. I had shown no signs of talent as a young man. I was an editor at the school literary magazine at Oberlin College, and I would anonymously submit my short stories. When the other editors – two brilliant girls – would read them, they would say, ‘We can’t possibly […]
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“When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, no, I went to films.” Writer/Director Quentin Tarantino “Ang Lee was in my class. Another person instrumental in my filmmaking was the great cinematographer Ernest Dickerson.” Spike Lee on the benefits going to NYU film school with talented classmates NOTE: Like my […]
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“I graduated [from film school in] 2016 with $330,000 worth of debt and I’m on the road to paying it back.” Writer/director Reinaldo Marcus Green (Monsters and Men) WTF with Marc Maron podcast December 31, 2018 I’ve never heard of a $330,000 student loan for film school, so I’m just going to let this one sentence […]
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“If you was hit by a truck and you was lying out there in that gutter dying, and you had time to sing one song—one song that people would remember before you’re dirt. One song that would let God know how you felt about your time here on Earth. One song that would sum you […]
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“Location scouting for @thebrooklynnk’s directorial debut. A short called Colours. She writes, stars and directs and oh… she’s 8 years old.” —Tweet from writer/director Sean Baker regarding Brooklyn Prince’s first film “Some people glow really early, in their twenties and thirties, then in their fifties they are not doing as much. But I feel that […]
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“It’s like we’re not part of America . . . Name one place where it’s safe to talk without getting clobbered.” Longshoreman in On the Waterfront Writer/director Sean Baker (The Florida Project) spoke a Rollins College yesterday and asked the question, “Can cinema change the world?” He talked about the filmmakers and their films that […]
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Writer/director Sean Baker (The Florida Project) spoke a Rollins College yesterday and asked the question, “Can cinema change the world?” He talked about the filmmakers and their work that has inspired him over the years. Movies that set out to shine a light on a specific subject or problem and had an impact on society. […]
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