Screenwriting From Iowa

I started this blog when I lived in Cedar Falls, Iowa and the story of Taylor and Danielle Morris is as good an example as they come of what makes that area and people special. The first video was just released by the Gary Sinise Foundation regarding the Morris’ new Cedar Falls home, and the […]

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I started this blog when I lived in Cedar Falls, Iowa and the story of Taylor and Danelle Morris is as good an example as they come of what makes that area and people special. The first video was just released by the Gary Sinise Foundation, and the second video is is Taylor talking about […]

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“David Lynch’s The Elephant Man is the one Lynch film that found a mesmerizing middle ground between conventional Hollywood story structure and its director’s surreal dreamscapes. Yet today it seems on the verge of being forgotten, and that’s a shame.” Kyle Smith, National Review The Elephant Man is currently available on Netflix and I had forgotten what […]

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I come out of a background — I was a private detective for years after I started as a filmmaker. I like to think, of course I could be completely wrong, that there’s this detective element in everything I do. My movies start from interviews. Everything that I’ve really done —The Thin Blue Line started […]

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Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning producer/writer/director James L. Brooks has had one of the most remarkable careers in Hollywood. There’s his credits as creator or co-creator of The Simpsons, Taxi, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. His credits as a producer include Jerry Maguire and Big. And he wrote and directed As Good As it Gets and […]

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“Plot is just not my gift. I’m fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn’t mix well with complex plots. . . . I’ve made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn’t exist. One is ‘Write the movie you’d pay to go see.’ Another is ‘Never let a character tell me something […]

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“[For First Reformed] I had the character from Diary of a Country Priest, I had the premise from Winter Light, I had the ending from Ordet, I had the levitation from Tarkovsky’s The Mirror, I had the credits from Voyage to Italy—I was stealing all over the place. . . .The secret of stealing is […]

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“There are some cases where you want to afflict the comfortable, and there are other cases where you want to comfort the afflicted.” Katie Couric on the journalist’s job Interview on The Tim Ferriss Show According to a Poynter article by David Shedden the roots of that sentiment go back to a one-act play with […]

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Make a difference today for someone who is fighting for their tomorrow. You don’t need to be a Russell Wilson, an Aaron Rogers, to make a difference out there. Every single person in this roon can be a difference maker. You can be just a normal person that gets up every morning and goes to […]

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“Sometimes people will say to me, why do you always have these characters act so badly? Why are they behaving terribly? Why do they think this way? And I always say because they need to learn a lesson. If they’re smart, and self-actualized, and kind, and compassionate there’s no story. Stories are about people who […]

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