Author Archive
May
23
2013
 
Writing Quote #41 (Tony Kushner)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I get to say the think that all writers must tell themselves to start writing—which is nobody has to see this thing. I can throw it away. I’m alone with it. No one has to know what an idiot I really am. And I can burn it. And if it don’t work, if it really […]
May
22
2013
“Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus”Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“The most ordinary conversation in the south has a theological basis.” Harry Crews “There are fierce powers at work in the world boys. Good. Evil. Mud (Matthew McConaughey) Mud written by Jeff Nichols One of the reasons I’ve been blogging in and around the movie Mud for the past week is because Nichols has done what I think […]
May
21
2013
“More Than Entertainment”—Harry CrewsPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Writing fiction or plays or poetry seems to me to be a very messy business. To be a writer requires an enormus tolerance for frustration, for anxiety, for self-doubt.” Harry Crews When writer/director Jeff Nichols mentioned in a recent interview that one of the books that influenced his writing of his film Mud was the […] “I can remember very vividly in high school getting my heart-broken and it was like a physical pain. I was physically nauseous. And anytime there is an emotion that is that strong, or that I can remember or feel that strongly in the present day, it’s worth hanging a movie around.” Writer/Director Jeff Nichols While […] “I just write character first. I put plot second.” Writer/Director Jeff Nichols (Mud) The reason I’ve spent all week writing about Jeff Nichols and/or his film Mud is not just because he is currently a screenwriter/filmmaker based outside of Los Angeles—but because I think Mud will end up with Oscar-nominations for Best Picture and best original […]
May
16
2013
Screenwriting Quote #183 (Jeff Nichols)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I feel like when you write, you have to have a personal core to a story if you have any hope of it translating to an audience. There are certain emotions you have throughout your life that are palpable, you can feel them; they hurt. Every film I’ve made, I can point to one of […] “[Jeff Nichols] was way beyond most students with narrative. Of all the students I’ve seen in 10 years, he’s probably the best with just taking a story from beginning to middle and end. He was raised right, as we say in the South.” Filmmaker and Instructor Gary Hawkins (now at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies) Storytelling Son of […] “I wanted to bottle the pain of standing in a parking lot next to a Piggly Wiggly and having your heart broken.” Writer director Jeff Nichols on his film Mud When a man loves a woman, he can’t keep his mind on nothing else He’ll trade the world for the good thing he’s found If she […] Love my ma, love my pa But I just love ole Arkansas Arkansas lyrics from the musical Big River <iframe width=”560″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/Pv30J05U2nI” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen><iframe> “I remember I was in junior high school and I was going to write a short story about mobsters, or New York mobsters. I think I had just seen a Scorsese […] “There is no way I’d be doing what I do now if it wasn’t for The Beatles. I was watching the Ed Sullivan show and I saw them. Those skinny little boys, kind of androgynous, with long hair like girls. It blew me away that these four boys in the middle of nowhere could make […] |
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