Today’s post actually uses more than twice as many letters in the title than in the definition of story according to one Oscar-winner: “Story is an emotional journey. That’s all it is.” —Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects, Mission: Impossible—Fallout) The Inside Pitch Facebook live interview with Christopher Lockhart 7/11/2020 Since McQuarrie has made seven films […]
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Here’s an excerpt from the WTF with Marc Maron podcast, episode 1129. Marc Maron: I can clearly see watching [Don] Rickles–whether he’s just doing jokes or however good his timing is, or whatever—that there are moments there where I’m like this is a man filled with rage. Jerry Seinfeld: I do think we could come […]
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I needed a jolt after the July 4th weekend to get back in the saddle and I found it yesterday listening to Marc Maron’s interviews with Carl Reiner (2013) and Jerry Seinfeld (2020). It was like a mini-lesson in peak history in American comedy for the past 70 years. Before Seinfeld became the most financially […]
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I needed a jolt after the July 4th weekend to get back in the saddle and I found it yesterday listening to Marc Maron’s interviews with Carl Reiner (2013) and Jerry Seinfeld (2020). It was like a mini-lesson in peak history in American comedy for the past 70 years. Before Seinfeld became the most financially […]
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The following question and answer is from the Creative Screenwriting magazine article “Frank Darabont on The Green Mile” by Daniel Argent and Erik Bauer: Q. When it came down to translating The Green Mile into a screenplay, how did you put it together? Did you work with paradigms, three-act structures, reverse structures? Frank Darabont: I don’t think I’d […]
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[M]ost of the characters I’ve known as a writer have traveled something of a path from darkness to lightness. Those are the characters that I love: those who seek some kind of enlightenment or betterment, a nobler sense of themselves. Those are the characters I tend to write. It’s a recurring theme in my work. […]
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“Blue Mind, a mildly meditative state characterized by calm, peacefulness, unity, and a sense of general happiness and satisfaction with life in the moment.” —Wallace J. Nichols Blue Mind, Chapter 1 “Why Do We Love Water So Much?’ While walking through the Minneapolis airport about 10 years ago I saw a Hobie Mirage Adventure Island […]
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I took this photo around 6:45AM yesterday just about 15 minutes after sunrise. A massive dust storm off the coast off Africa—nicknamed “Godzilla”—made its way across the Atlantic to Florida this week causing unusually hazy conditions. The Spanish moss hanging from trees is not only common in central Florida where I took this photo, but […]
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“I was going into hiatus on Rawhide, a month layoff. And they said, well, we got this western we want to make in Europe. Italian company. Made in Spain. German co-production. About a $200,000 budget. And I said, I don’t think so. I‘d really rather take the time off. I got a job and I’m […]
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“Originality is just undetected plagiarism.” —Anonymous (Some version of this quote is attributed to William Ralph Inge, Mark Twain, Herbert Paul, Paul Chatfield, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, and others.) “I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it—if my work has anything it’s that I’m taking this from this and that from that and mixing them […]
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