“[Hollywood has] welcomed change with about the same relish the dinosaurs welcomed the Ice Age.” Stephen Galloway The Hollywood Reporter “I get asked all the time, ‘Where does this stop? When does it stop?’ The truth is that it is only getting started.” Brett Sappington (on the growing number of streaming services) A senior Parks […]
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Last week, I dug up some CDs of novelist Stephen King’s reading of his book On Writing and came across this nugget: “Plot is, I think, the good writer’s last resort and the dullard’s first choice. The story which results from it is apt to feel artificial and labored. I lean more heavily on intuition, […]
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“I’m not a movie producer, I’m in the feelings business. . . . I’m captivated by things that move me emotionally, and elevate me emotionally.” Oscar-winning Producer Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind) The Joe Rogan Experience #1370 Related posts: 40 Days of Emotions
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Last year when the first version of The Quiet Place screenplay found its way online it was unorthodox in that Scott Beck and Bryan Woods where on one page they used just one word (SNAP…) among other techniques. (See the post Writing an Unorthodox Script.) Well, this year’s unorthodox script (or maybe just unorthodox page) goes to […]
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“We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness” ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness “Hello darkness, my old friend…” —Simon & Garfunkel The Sounds of Silence (written by Paul Simon and sung by Simon & Garfunkel) The last two movies I happened to see in theaters were Joker and The Lighthouse. Thankfully, I didn’t see them on […]
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If you’re on Twitter, two writer/directors that I’d recommend you follow are Scott Beck and Bryan Woods (A Quiet Place, Haunt) who go by @beckandwoods on Twitter. Here’s an example of one of their tweets.
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“In the beginning, I tried to be a more cosmopolitan writer, but I realized that I was a country boy, and I had to deal with things I knew about and where I came from.” Ernest Gaines The odds from the start were greatly against Ernest Gaines becoming the novelist Ernest Gaines. Or the one whose work […]
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“Often bumpy roads lead to beautiful places. And this is a beautiful place.” Washington Nationals Manager Dave Martinez If you like comebacks and reversals then the 2018-2019 Washington Nationals are your team. There aren’t too many people in May 2019 who would have predicted that the Washington Nationals at the end of October would be […]
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“Often bumpy roads lead to beautiful places. And this is a beautiful place.” Washington Nationals Manager Dave Martinez If you like comebacks and reversals then the 2018-2019 Washington Nationals are your team. There aren’t too many people in May 2019 who would have predicted that the Washington Nationals at the end of October would be […]
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“[Dave Martinez is] a fine role model for many. Just not, it seems, a very good big league manager.” Thomas Boswell The Washington Post, May 22, 2019 (A few months before Martinez led the Nationals to their first ever World Series appearance.) Last night, during game six of the World Series between the Houston Astros […]
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