“If more information was the answer, we’d all be billionaires with perfect abs.” —Derek Sivers (@sivers) (I think this is from an interview he did with Tim Ferriss) As I try to wrap up what I hope is the final re-write on my book on screenwriting (like the greatest hits from this blog over the […]
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Yesterday’s post was long, so I’ll make up for it today. “Writing fiction or plays or poetry seems to me to be a very messy business. To be a writer requires an enormous tolerance for frustration, for anxiety, for self-doubt.”
—Writer Harry Crews (A Feast of Snakes)
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Note: I forget where and when I first read the memo from David Mamet to the writers of The Unit, but I know I wrote a post about it back in 2010 titled DAVID MAMET’S BOLD MEMO (?) The question mark was there because I could not confirm any sources where Mamet acknowledged that he actually […]
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“The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.” —Arthur Miller(Death of a Salesman) “A screenwriter friend of mine said your number one goal is to get to the end. So write it fast; don’t look back. If you have to have characters yak about […]
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“I love the idea of catching ideas. And they’re out there, millions and millions of ideas, and we don’t know them until they enter the conscious mind. And then we know them. And we see them and hear them and feel them. We know the mood of them, even if it’s just a small fragment […]
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I took this photo at 6:27 AM yesterday following a day and night of social unrest around the country. It was a nice reminder that there is still much beauty in the world. May it give you some respite from your newsfeed. Scott W. Smith
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“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.” Above quote spoken by character Henry in The Real Thing: A Play written by […]
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? —Langston Hughes Harlem
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Note: I can’t think of a week in the past 12 years where I haven’t written a single post on this screenwriting and filmmaking blog. But that’s what happened in the last week of May. George Floyd died on May 25th shortly after being detained by police. The video of an officer with his knee […]
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“We were making industrials and commericals and all that, and of course, our passion was to make a feature film. So ten of us got together, the four of us from our company, Karl Hardman and Marilyn Eastman who are two of the actors in Night of the Living Dead (1968)—they played Helen and Harry […]
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