“The problem with Our Thing [screenwriting] is that it’s fertile ground for delusion… Most unappreciated writers are unappreciated because they suck.” Screenwriter Craig Mazin “Those who can’t write, teach seminars.” John August’s blog post title Oct, 25, 2010 Back on Halloween of 2010 I wrote the post The Angry Screenwriters. What I learned from that post […]
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“The problem with Our Thing (screenwriting) is that it’s fertile ground for delusion… Most unappreciated writers are unappreciated because they suck.” Screenwriter Craig Mazin “Those who can’t write, teach seminars.” John August’s blog post title Oct, 25, 2010 Back on Halloween of 2010 I wrote the post The Angry Screenwriters. What I learned from that post […]
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Over the weekend I saw Saving Mr. Banks and enjoyed it immensely. And there is a line in the film—that I don’t think is a spoiler—that seems to be what the film was about. “In every movie house, all over the world, in the eyes and the hearts of my kids, and other kids and […]
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“My little town blues are melting away.” New York, New York ”It’s not a musical; it’s a film with music. I got that definition from Billy Wilder, who said you can’t call it a musical unless the people sing in situations where you don’t expect them to. It’ll be about their marriage breaking up, about their […]
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“Paris, Texas is a heartbreaking character study of longing and lacerations of the heart.” Hillary Weston When you blog daily you have to find ways to try to keep it fresh. So what started with Holland, Michigan—The Screenplay, through the doc Vernon, Florida yesterday, leads us to Paris, Texas. The Wim Wender’s directed film from a […]
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“After twenty years of reviewing films, I haven’t found another filmmaker who intrigues me more…Errol Morris is like a magician, and as great a filmmaker as Hitchcock or Fellini.” Roger Ebert You know what’s most quirky about The Black List (2013)? Yes, screenwriter Elijah Bynum is the only writer with two scripts on the list, […]
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I couldn’t help but smile yesterday when I saw The Hollywood Reporter headline: ‘Holland, Michigan’ Tops 2013 Black List The Holland, Michigan script written by Andrew Sodroski received 46 mentions from film executives placing it at the top of the pile of the best unproduced scripts kicking around Hollywood. While I know more about the […]
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“BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND” Steven R. Covey The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Habit #2) After I wrote the last screenwriting tip, Writing Good Bad Guys (Tip #85), I discovered a Facebook thread over at The Inside Pitch where WME Story Editor Christopher Lockhart listed some of his favorite bad characters in movies. (I’ve […]
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“Odd lead performances be damned, [Bubble] is not only an underrated gem, but yet another masterpiece found within Soderbergh’s historic filmography.” Joshua Brunsting, Criterioncast Today on re-post Saturday I decided on one where Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh (Traffic) talked about directing non-professional actors because it’s a nice match for the post earlier this month where […]
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“I read a phenomenal book called Directing Actors by Judith Weston, which I would recommend to anybody who wants to direct anything. And then I called up a bunch of young directors and said, ‘You don’t know me, my name is Billy Ray, I’m about to go direct a movie. Could I take you to lunch and […]
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