“The fact is that every single one of us or our agencies take on new people. We have to. It’s the lifeblood of the business. I mean, things turn over. Clients leave, clients leave the business altogether — we do have overhead; we do need to pay attention to those clients who make a lot [...]
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Author Archive“My writing teacher at USC said this profession is a marathon, not a sprint.”
Allison Schroeder “I paid 140,000 dollars to attend NYU film school, and luckily had a teacher who believed in me enough to refer me to her manager. I was working at a restaurant in NYC, partying, and having a generally great [...] The Juno logline in yesterday’s post set the tone for today’s post which I found in a book that was recently published called Now Write! Screenwriting; Screenwriting Exercises from Today’s Best Writers and Teachers, and edited by Shelly Ellis and Laurie Lamson. Good stuff—and will give you a break from those longer posts I’ve been cranking [...] Part of the roots of this blog go back to screenwriter Diablo Cody & Juno. Though I had been gathering notes on writing and production for my own purposes for years, it was Cody’s open appeal to anyone to start a blog and see what happens that got me in the game. So it’s always fun to [...]
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Screenwriting Headaches & ScarsPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Any time a character gets injured and needs medical care, either from a doctor or romantic interest, we feel empathy.” Karl Iglesias Writing for Emotional Impact “Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.” Leo Tolstoy Yesterday I [...] “Screenwriting’s one unbreakable rule: Don’t be boring.” Richard Walter Essentials of Screenwriting The above quote was how I ended yesterday’s post after seven straight days of posts taken from an interview I did with UCLA Richard Walter. And as a perfect segue for today’s post I picked up the book The Paris Reviews Playwrights at [...] “For me, it was a matter of years of trying to develop my writing in the same way that some people spend years learning to play the violin.” Oscar-nominated screenwriter Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile) “I wrote maybe 10 screenplays before I was able to sell one.” Oscar nominated screenwriter Nicolas Kazan, [...]
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Filmmaker as Artist/EntrepreneurPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Art is not only a vehicle for self-expression or exclusively for the pursuit of the spiritual. From the very beginning, drawing an animal on the wall of a cave—you would be able to control the animal and this magic would help the tribe.” Milton Glaser Art is Work (Popularly known as the artist who designed the [...]
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The Advatage of Being from _________Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa(Richard Walter, UCLA Screenwriting professor, Interview Part 5) SS: The title and subtitle of this blog is “Screenwriting from Iowa….and other unlikely places,” and it was in part inspired by learning that Diablo Cody went to college in Iowa, just about an hour where I live, and wrote the distinctly Midwestern screenplay Juno in a [...] (Richard Walter, Chairman of UCLA Screenwriting Program, Interview Part 4) SS: How have you seen the film industry change since you were coming up in the ’60s and ’70s? Richard Walter: Well, essentiality it hasn’t really changed. It’s still all about story; it’s always been about writing. There’s a popular notion that it’s really about directing, [...] |
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