“I wanted to explore what it means to be African.” Writer/director Ryan Coogler (Black Panther) Rolling Stone Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of this blog and I’m committing to blogging for another year —and posting daily. Because I’ve been on the tail end of finishing the book version of this blog it’s made posting in […]
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Statistically, in my own case, I suppose half of the screenplays I’ve written have actually seen production. And I am being dead honest when I tell you this: I have absolutely no more idea as to why some of them happened than why some of them didn’t. Of course it’s more than possible that my […]
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As a writer I believe that all the basic human truths are known. And what we try to do as best we can is come at those truths from our own unique angle, to reilluminate those truths in a hopefully different way.” William Goldman Adventures in the Screen Trade
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Writing a screenplay is in many ways similar to executing a piece of carpentry. If you take some wood and nails and glue and make a bookcase, only it topples over when you try to stand it upright, you may have created something, but it won’t work as a bookcase.” Screenwriter William Goldman (Misery, The […]
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“[William Goldman]was the dean of American screenwriters and still is.” Aaron Sorkin (after learning of Goldman dying in November) LA Times Where were you in 1983? Some of you weren’t even born yet. But that’s when William Goldman’s Adventures in the Screen Trade came out. I was in film school in 1983 and had never lived […]
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“Silicon Valley has already won. It’s just that Hollywood hasn’t quite figured it out yet.” Nick Bilton Later this month I’m going to hit my 11th anniversary of writing this blog. A blog that I initially thought I’d do for one year. The first blog post was on January 22, 2008 so I’m hoping by […]
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