“The problem with romantic comedy is really—what keeps two people apart? What insurmountable problem keeps two people apart? And in the modern times it’s very hard to know what that could possibly be since there’s no rules about manners, and if people are married they can get divorced. There’s no class problems the way that [...]
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“The odds are stacked against everyone. Beat the odds and write a great script.” Writer/director Jeff Arch This afternoon at I’m going to be doing a filmmaking workshop for high school teenagers at Wartburg College. They’d probably rather talk about the upcoming release The Dark Knight Rises rather than a movie like Sleepless in Seattle [...]
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“A word that was very important to me when I was making the movie was timeless.” Director Nora Ephron on Sleepless in Seattle Even if you don’t like mainstream Hollywood romantic comedies, there is much to appreciate about Sleepless in Seattle. Afterall it not only made more than $250 million back when it was released in [...]
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“It was her journalist’s curiosity that made Nora [Ephron] the directing talent she was. Her writing was always voice and detail. I once sent her a piece I was trying to write, and her response was three words: “Voice! Voice! Voice!’” Tom Hanks Time article 6/27/12 Nora Ephron had a voice. A voice honed over [...]
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For all those who say you should never use voice-over narration in your scripts: “How can you be afraid of voiceover? You certainly can’t expect people to read what’s on the computer. I just love voice-over. I adore it. It’s great, especially when it’s right for the movie. I mean, I’m married to Nick Pileggi. [...]
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[President Obama]was very easy to talk to. I’ve been invited to watch the 4th of July fireworks on the White House lawn.” Taylor Morris Tonight Taylor Morris will celebrating the 4th of July at the White House. Just five years ago he was a recent graduate of Cedar Falls High School here in Cedar Falls, [...]
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“The fundamental thing that’s true of both [journalism & screenwriting] is that there’s a beginning, a middle, and an end. What I really understood as a magazine writer was when the beginning had to start to end, and the middle had to begin, and when the middle had to start to end and when the [...]
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“For years, I just wrote scripts that didn’t get made.” Nora Ephron “Originally I went into movies not because I was burnt out on journalism but from economic desperation. When my marriage broke up, I had two kids and I figured I’d better get my act together because nobody else was going to help.” Nora [...]
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I think it’s fitting that writing this 1,300th post for Screenwriting from Iowa…and Other Unlikely Places started in New York City (Hotel Belleclaire–where Mark Twain was once a guest) and ended home in Cedar Falls, Iowa—but that today is my birthday. The goal for this blog when I began in January 2008 was to simply pull [...]
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In the last 48 hours I’ve taken one long bath in New York City. Not a literal bath because my hotel room doesn’t have a bath tub. (In fact, the “upgraded” room is about the size of a bathroom in other places in the United States.) But like most of my trips over the years [...]
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