Author Archive
Feb
23
2016
 
Writing Quote #56 (Enchanting Bill Bryson)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“People who have nothing to do with Des Moines drive in off the interstate, looking for gas or hamburgers, and stay forever.” Bill Bryson The Lost Continent: Travels on Small-Town America Not every kid who grew up in Iowa would one day have Robert Redford portray them in a movie. In fact, there’s only one […]
Feb
22
2016
Writing Quote #55 (Harper Lee)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I would advice anyone who aspires to a writing career, that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.” To Kill A Mockingbird author Harper Lee (1926-2016) Scott W. Smith “Plays are about conflict. Plays are about people not getting along.” Edward Albee “Generally in a lot of my plays, two people are in major confrontation with each other, like in The Odd Couple or Barefoot in the Park or The Sunshine Boys.” Neil Simon In February of 2008—way back when I just started blogging and honestly didn’t know […] “Plays are about conflict. Plays are about people not getting along.” Edward Albee “Generally in a lot of my plays, two people are in major confrontation with each other, like in The Odd Couple or Barefoot in the Park or The Sunshine Boys.” Neil Simon In February of 2008—way back when I just started blogging and honestly didn’t know […]
Feb
18
2016
The Odd Couple vs. The Odd CouplePosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaThis post originally ran in September 2013: “It’s universality is obvious. Who among us, sometime in his life, hasn’t shared living quarters with another human being?…The play represented everyone in the world, including, I imagine, astronauts in space for weeks at a time.” Neil Simon on his play/screenplay The Odd Couple Today is history in the […]
Feb
17
2016
Film vs. TV Writing (10 Differences)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“With film you are closing doors. You’re telling a two-hour story, and you’re closing doors. With television you’re opening as many as you possibly can to leave yourself avenues for five or six years of storytelling.” Film & TV Writer/Producer Melissa Rosenberg (Twilight, Dexter) Filmmaker magazine interview with Alix Lambert “TV is almost as different from […]
Feb
15
2016
Film vs. TV Writing (Silly vs. Serious)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Take your favorite [television] show from the 80s—I promise you it sucks. So much of the writing has fled movies because it doesn’t take any wit, or intelligence, to write ‘more shit blows up…only bigger.’ They don’t want Paddy Chayefsky.” Frank Darabont Zürich Film Festival 2012 Writing for feature films vs. television is the Super […]
Feb
12
2016
TV Time (or Whatever You Call It)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaI’ve written over 2,000 post on this blog and less than 100 of them have been on TV writing. But that’s changing this year. And maybe Tv writing is the wrong term now that Netflix, Amazon, You Tube and others are creating content. There are reports showing teenagers spending most of their screen time with smartphones, […]
Feb
11
2016
Sundance, Independence & DiversityPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“During the ’60s and ’70s the mainstream included independent films within its own structure…What happened is in 1979, maybe ’80, I could see something happening where cable was coming up, and video on demand was coming up. At the same time Hollywood as an industry was beginning to move away from the more independent films and focusing […] “When it comes to screenwriting, it’s the writing. You don’t hear people who want to play professional tennis ask to be introduced to the head of Wimbledon. No, they’re out there hitting a thousand forehands and a thousand backhands. But for some reason, in the case of screenwriting, people don’t think that way.” Oscar-nominated […] |
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