This post originally ran in September 2013: “It’s universality is obvious. Who among us, sometime in his life, hasn’t shared living quarters with another human being?…The play represented everyone in the world, including, I imagine, astronauts in space for weeks at a time.” Neil Simon on his play/screenplay The Odd Couple Today is history in the […]
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“With film you are closing doors. You’re telling a two-hour story, and you’re closing doors. With television you’re opening as many as you possibly can to leave yourself avenues for five or six years of storytelling.” Film & TV Writer/Producer Melissa Rosenberg (Twilight, Dexter) Filmmaker magazine interview with Alix Lambert “TV is almost as different from […]
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“Take your favorite [television] show from the 80s—I promise you it sucks. So much of the writing has fled movies because it doesn’t take any wit, or intelligence, to write ‘more shit blows up…only bigger.’ They don’t want Paddy Chayefsky.” Frank Darabont Zürich Film Festival 2012 Writing for feature films vs. television is the Super […]
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I’ve written over 2,000 post on this blog and less than 100 of them have been on TV writing. But that’s changing this year. And maybe Tv writing is the wrong term now that Netflix, Amazon, You Tube and others are creating content. There are reports showing teenagers spending most of their screen time with smartphones, […]
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“During the ’60s and ’70s the mainstream included independent films within its own structure…What happened is in 1979, maybe ’80, I could see something happening where cable was coming up, and video on demand was coming up. At the same time Hollywood as an industry was beginning to move away from the more independent films and focusing […]
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“When it comes to screenwriting, it’s the writing. You don’t hear people who want to play professional tennis ask to be introduced to the head of Wimbledon. No, they’re out there hitting a thousand forehands and a thousand backhands. But for some reason, in the case of screenwriting, people don’t think that way.” Oscar-nominated […]
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Starting tomorrow I’ll start a string of posts on Film vs. TV writing, but today I wanted to reflect on Super Bowl 50 and see if I could find any takeaway for dramatic writers. Payton Manning won his second Super Bowl game as quarterback and it had to be pretty sweet knowing that earlier this […]
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The ESPN Films new doc The 85 Bears premiered a few days ago celebrating the Chicago Bears football team who won Super Bowl XX after the 1985 season. And since this is Super Bowl 50 Sunday, I thought I’d post a photo I took in the mid-’80s of the quarterback of ’85 Bears, Jim McMahon with […]
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ESPN Films new doc The 85 Bears premiered a few days ago celebrating the Chicago Bears football team who won Super Bowl XX after the 1985 season. And since this is Super Bowl 50 Sunday, I thought I’d post a photo I took in the mid-’80s of the quarterback of ’85 Bears, Jim McMahon with John […]
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I had a slightly abridged version of this quote in an earlier post this week, but thought it needed to stand on its on: “I’ve always felt that if you put me in front of 10 feet of concrete and said, ‘walk through it’—I’d get through it. I believe it, I really do. It’s just […]
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