Screenwriting From Iowa

“Read poetry every day of your life. Poetry is good because it flexes muscles you don’t use often enough. Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition…Poetry is compacted metaphor or simile…Ideas lie everywhere through the poetry books…From Byron’s, And the Moon Be Still as Bright, came a chapter for my novel The […]

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Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451) is yet another writer who had that Midwest/Hollywood thing going on. Born in Waukegan, Illinois, and raised on comic books, carnivals, and Edgar Allen Poe, he graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1938. (And of what it’s worth, he did not attend college.) When he died in 2012 at the […]

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“Public Morals is proof that even in this time of television’s Great Overcrowding, one should never judge a show by its genre… Public Morals is a picaresque, briskly written and quickly captivating series that is neither afraid nor ashamed of entertaining its audience.” Mary McNamara Los Angeles Times review Public Morals, created by Edward Burns, premieres tonight on […]

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“My first impression of the Raiders was that they were violent, and they were a little rough around the edges. And I think that’s what I liked about them.” Ice Cube, rapper (N.W.A.) and producer (Straight Outta Compton) “When you got to N.W.A. you had this merger of sort of a gangster football team and […]

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“Of the scores of screenwriters who might have authored the story of gangsta rap on the big screen, Jonathan Herman is not the most intuitive candidate.” Steven Zeitchik LA Times After Alan Wenkus and S. Leigh Savidge sold their screenplay Straight Outta Compton in 2008, and after screenwriter Andrea Berloff spent three and a half […]

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“I like to feel with absolute certainty that the fundamental idea for the film is, without a doubt, an exceptional premise, one that implies that a film must be made from it, without question.” Screenwriter Terry Rossio Interview with John Robert Marlow “I hear lots of concepts from new scribes and rarely do any resonate […]

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Did you know there is an interesting connection between Game of Thrones director David Nutter and Pro Football Hall-of-Fame quarterback Jim Kelly? Back in the early 80s both were students at the University of Miami. (I was there and for a fleeting moment crossed paths with both of them on their way to greatness.) Kelly went on […]

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“I love comedies, musicals, and thrillers like everybody else, but I confess to believing action pictures are what movies are most essentially all about. It’s the work they do best and uniquely best. I don’t mean action movies are better; in fact, most of them are actually a lot worse than the norm. But the […]

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“I personally don’t think that being in LA is necessary to break in as a writer, but it certainly can’t hurt. I would hesitate to advise anyone to just quit their job and throw everything into a U-Haul and drive off to LA on a wing and a prayer. There are too many sad stories […]

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