The following quote is part of a post that originally ran on October 9, 2012, and found in Garry Marshall’s book (written with Lori Marshall) Wake Me When It’s Funny: “A director has to be part psychiatrist, part teacher, and part parent to everyone on the set. Part lover is not such a good idea because […]
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Author ArchiveThis post originally ran on October 6, 2012 as Garry Marshall’s Directing Tips (Part 1) , and the following quotes are pulled from Garry Marshall’s book Wake Me When It’s Funny: “I don’t storyboard. I don’t lay out each days shots, and I don’t always follow the dozen of other so-called rules of directing. I improvise […] The was originally posted October 5, 2015 as Screenwriting Quote #171 (Garry Marshall): I just came across an interview with Garry Marshall and loved the simplicity of the following quote so much I snuck it into the post Writing & Rewriting Pretty Woman (Part 2). But I also thought it needed its own post: “It is […] Originally published on Oct. 4, 2012 as The Power of Gentleness: “Several years ago when I lectured at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, I was startled to see how much the students knew about directing. They were up to date on the latest technology, knew which lenses to use to achieve different shots, […] This was originally posted on October 3, 2012 as Writing & Rewriting ‘Pretty Woman’ (Part 2). Who would have thought three years ago Donald Trump would seriously be running for president of the United States? I one interview, as you’ll read in this post, director Garry Marshall said of Richard Gere’s character in Pretty Woman was a “Donald […] Note: This post was originally posted in 2012 as Writing & Rewriting ‘Pretty Woman’ (Part 1). Earlier this year, there was a 25th Anniversary celebration for the movie Pretty Woman. But as this post shows, the original script was far from a romantic comedy. Let me also update the post to add in an 2015 Interview J.F. Lawton gives […] Yesterday’s post—George Miller Masterclass in Visual Storytelling—was one of the most viewed and shared posts I’d written all year and a fitting end to a month of posts centered around Austin, Texas—based filmmaker Robert Rodriguez. The only other time I’ve done something like that was back in 2012 when I ran a month of posts […]
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George Miller Masterclass in Visual StorytellingPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“The perfect movie doesn’t have any dialogue. So you should always be striving to make a silent movie.” David Mamet On Film Directing “One of my notions [in making Mad Max] was that if I make the action sequences as a silent movie, and it reads as a silent movie, then it can only get […]
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From Starsky & Hutch to Pacino & De NiroPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I saw Dr. Strangelove in 1963 when I was in Madison, Wis., where I was an undergraduate, and it was a revelation. What struck me is that it was possible to make a film as a real auteur for a mass audience….I don’t know how many times I’ve seen Strangelove but it’s as fresh and exciting today as it […]
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Filmmaker/Entrepreneur Robert RodriguezPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaThere’s been a big surge this month on my post Screenwriter/Saleman Pete Jones. Why would there be a surge from a post written over four years ago? I haven’t seen the rebooted Project Greenlight, but I have a felling it’s connected to that since Jones was the person who wrote and directed the first Project […] |
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