Archive for the “Screenwriting From Iowa” Category
Jan
09
2017
 
Postcard #109 (Miami Sunrise)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaI started this postcard section years ago when I traveled for various productions. I don’t travel as much as I used to but a shoot popped up last week so here’s a shot of the sunrise this morning from my room at the InterContinental Hotel in Miami. (Actually a shot of a shot of a sunrise.) […]
Jan
06
2017
Writing Quote #66 (Frank Darabont)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“For me, it was a matter of years of trying to develop my writing in the same way that some people spend years learning to play the violin.” Writer/director Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) Note: I pulled this quote from my 2008 post Screenwriter’s Work Ethic. I think it might have originally been from the […]
Jan
06
2017
Writing Quote #65 (Willa Cather)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Of course Nebraska is a storehouse for literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for work. The only need is the eye to see.” Willa Cather My Antonia P.S. I pulled this quote […]
Jan
02
2017
Writing Quote #64 (Bernard Malamud)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From IowaOnce upon a time I started a little blog called Screenwriting from Iowa. It was meant to be a one year experiment—but here I am nine years later. My original goal was to gather some notes together and eventually organize them into a 50,000 word book. More on the book and the direction of this […] “A new heart for a New Year, always!” Charles Dickens (From his short novel The Chimes written in 1844, a year after he published A Christmas Carol) This afternoon I took this photo at the Grand Bohemian hotel in downtown Orlando which is less than two miles away from the Pulse nightclub where 49 people […]
Dec
30
2016
Writer Richard Adams (1920-2016)Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“His writing career happened almost by chance. [Richard] Adams had children late in life and liked to entertain them with stories. In 1966, driving from London to Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s birthplace, he began telling them about two rabbits named Fiver and Hazel who traveled to the real-life Watership Down, five miles from his childhood home. “Two […]
Dec
29
2016
Debbie Reynolds ‘Singin’ in the Rain’Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa
Dec
28
2016
Casting Carrie Fisher for ‘Star Wars’Posted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I’m telling an old myth in a new way. That’s how you pass down the meat and potatoes of your society to the next generation.” George Lucas on creating Star Wars Related Posts: Star Wars & The Four Functions of Mythology Screenwriting Structure, Snake Oil, & Star Wars Before Star Wars (Screenwriter Kasdan) Jim Mercurio […] “Speaking personally, Martin Scorsese is one of my absolute favorite directors, and I will watch anything he makes. Where he leads, I will follow. His new ‘Silence,’ is ready-made for this time of year, a tale of religious faith and deep spiritual questioning.” Mark Olsen, LA Times December 25, 2016 “With the religious historical drama Silence, […]
Dec
26
2016
Tender Mercies in La La LandPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden and I will give you rest.” Jesus I met my wife in an elevator in Burbank. (A line that’s more humorous if you’re aware how Johnny Carson used the line “beautiful downtown Burbank” when he was the king of late night TV.) My wife to be […] |
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