“If you’re looking for an excuse, you’ll find one.” Actor/Director Denzel Washington 60 Minutes interview December 18, 2016 “I’m particularly proud and happy about the young filmmakers, actors, singers, writers, producers that are coming up behind my generation. In particular Barry Jenkins. Young people, understand, this young man made 10-15-20 short films before he got […]
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I don’t know what what writer John Grogan’s dream was growing up in Michigan, but I’m pretty sure it didn’t involve two Hollywood actors eventually playing he and his wife based on an international best-selling book that he wrote. But that’s the way it went down. The Marley & Me author is a good example […]
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“I’m usually a night owl, but when I wrote Marley & Me, I forced myself to go to bed early and get up early. I wrote from 5 to 7 a.m. and then ate breakfast and went to work to write my newspaper column. I averaged a chapter a week this way. I began the […]
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“Some of the drafts I wrote, if you would have showed them to a studio executive, they would have called an emergency meeting…That’s the nature of writing. You kind of have to get lost. You go down a bunch of wrong paths and then you find the right path.” Screenwriter Robert D. Siegel on his […]
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“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 together….I steal from everything. Great artists steal, they don’t do homages.” Two-time Oscar wining screenwriter Quentin Tarantino Empire, November 1994 Note: I’m pretty sure he stole […]
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When I started this blog in 2008 I don’t recall the word curate being quite as in vogue is it is today. But curating has been a large part of what I’ve done. It started with a mountain of over 200 books on screenwriting and filmmaking that I’d collected since my film school days. Most […]
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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, here’s a short film called Notes—a life story, a love story. The Take Note Store in Canada says this on their website: We’re so proud of our beautiful new ‘Notes’. Despite living in a time when connecting with people has become so much easier, it has also become so much […]
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Just in time for Valentine’s Day, here’s a short film called Notes—a life story, a love story. The Take Note Store in Canada says this on their website: We’re so proud of our beautiful new ‘Notes’. Despite living in a time when connecting with people has become so much easier, it has also become so much […]
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“To the young writers, I would merely say try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour — or more — a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day. Henry Greene was an industrialist actually. He was […]
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Here’s a quote I pulled from my 2008 post Just Keep Writing (which itself came from a book called Art & Fear): “Virtually all artists spend some of their time (and some artists all of their time) producing work that no one else much cares about.” David Bayles & Ted Orland Art & Fear, Observations On […]
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