Screenwriting From Iowa

The goal is to tell a story for people who don’t have that exact situation in their lives at all. I’m very inspired by people like the Hungarian director István Szábo. He did a film titled Father (1968) and a film titled Lovefilm (1970). I love those films, and I know nothing about growing up […]

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Lisa Bonos/The Washington Post: How did you and your co-writer [Efthymis Filippou] get the idea for The Lobster? Yorgos Lanthimos: We make observations about the way we live and organize our lives — and structure our societies — so we wanted to do something about romantic relationships and how single people are treated within society. The pressure […]

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“It took me a while to get into screenwriting and filmmaking. I started out as a playwright, and I’m still a playwright, but I was in my early thirties before I ever tried to write a screenplay for myself. The theater taught me to respect actors, the advantages of rehearsal, the magical power of theatricality, […]

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I’m more of the sort of Lars von Trier Breaking the Waves school. The movie [Lion] is primarily an emotional journey, and the movies that matter to me, you experience them here, in the heart and the gut. They’re not such intellectual exercises as visceral and emotional experiences.” Screenwriter Luke Davies (Lion) Moviemaker  Related posts: Aim […]

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I’m more of the sort of Lars von Trier Breaking the Waves school. The movie is primarily an emotional journey, and the movies that matter to me, you experience them here, in the heart and the gut. They’re not such intellectual exercises as visceral and emotional experiences.” Screenwriter Luke Davies (Lion) Moviemaker  Related posts: Aim for […]

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“Liberty City, one of the poorest sections of Miami and almost entirely black, is geographically tiny, little more than the housing projects and the blocks surrounding them.” Nikole Hannah-Jones/ New York Times What’s more unlikely than an Oscar-winning screenwriter being from the Liberty City section of Miami? That’s easy— how about two Oscar-winning writers being from […]

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“My first student film, written/directed shortly after 9/11. A reminder to myself to channel this energy, to create.” Barry Jenkins (@BandryBarry) 11/10/2016 Tweet Before Barry Jenkins wrote (with Tarell Alvin McCraney) and directed Moonlight—which won the Oscar last night for Best Picture and for Best Adapted Screenplay—he was a film school student at Florida State University. My […]

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Before Barry Jenkins wrote and directed Moonlight—which won the Oscar last night for Best Picture—he was a film school student at Florida State University. My Josephine was his first short film. (A good example of Start Small…But Start Somewhere.) According to Florida State News, a total of seven people from FSU graduates worked on Moonlight. […]

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“There’s no one working in television or theater today who’s not influenced by…the fountainhead of this whole thing, which is Death of a Salesman.” Mad Men creator & 9-time Primetime Emmy winner Matthew Weiner “Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman was like a mirror to the story I had written.” Asgahar Farhadi on The Salesman Empire […]

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“We were actually writing the screenplay at the same time as Margot [Lee Shetterly], the author, was writing the book – all we had was the book proposal. A few years ago, the producers were looking for a writer, and they read my script on Agatha Christie, actually, and they sent me the book proposal […]

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