After almost 13 years of writing blogs I did my first podcast interview on Alex Ferrari’s Bulletproof Screenwriting podcast. For my first time out of the gate, overall I thought it went pretty well. Alex did a super job trying to keep in on the topic of my book Screenwriting with Brass Knuckles. (Otherwise we […]
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Archive for December, 2020
Dec
02
2020
 
‘I’m a first-rate, second-rate director’—Francis Ford CoppolaPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaThe first film director that I think I was ever aware of was Francis Ford Coppola. I was in middle school when other students were talking about a movie featuring a scene with a severed horse’s head. Being 11-12 years old I didn’t see The Godfather in theaters in its original release—but I learned the […]
Dec
01
2020
Building Up vs. Tearing DownPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I can trace so much of what I do every day, when I’m writing, to what I was taught back then by my teachers at Syracuse.”—Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network, A Few Good Men) The first photography class I ever had was as a sophomore in high school. The teacher told me to drop the […] |
