“Write. Write poorly. Continue writing poorly. Write poorly until it’s not bad anymore, and then you’ll have something you can use. People who have trouble coming up with good ideas—if they’re telling you the truth—will tell you they don’t have very many bad ideas. But people who have plenty of good ideas—if they’re telling you […]
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Archive for the “Screenwriting From Iowa” CategoryScreenwriter/director Chris Sparling had a couple false starts in L.A. before he eventually was awarded the Best Original Screenplay by the 2010 National Board of Review for his Buried screenplay. The Rhode Island native said he trying to do too much in his first attempts to make it in L.A. (taking acting classes, waiting table, going […]
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Shooting a Feature Film in a CoffinPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I was really beginning to question if I’d ever catch my proverbial big break. I drifted away from film work and started applying for police jobs.” Chris Sparling, Buried screenwriter “(Chris Sparling) went directly from struggling indie director to successful Hollywood scribe when the screenplay for his horror thriller Buried was picked up, cast with a major up-and-coming star, […]
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2016
Shooting a Feature Film Over DinnerPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I wrote [My Dinner with Andre] with a friend of mine, Andre Gregory—which was also set in the rubble of a decaying city. I played a writer who struggled to find a way to survive.” Writer/Actor Wally Shawn Okay, this one is a cheat. While My Dinner with Andre (1982) is a film that takes place over […]
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Shooting a Feature Film in 1 DayPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“What appealed to me on a purely human level, was that this director respected everyone equally, regardless of their rank, status or role in the process.” Cinematographer Tilman Büttner (On director Russian Ark director Alexander Sokurov) The last two posts were about shooting a feature film in four days, making a feature film in two days, so why […]
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Shooting a Feature Film in 2 DaysPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“Of all the films I ever directed, the one that has survived the longest as a genuine ‘cult classic’ is the one I did the fastest and the cheapest. It only took me two days on a leftover soundstage to shoot principle photography for The Little Shop of Horrors, but it has lived on for […]
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Shooting a Feature Film in 4 DaysPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“I’m probably a pretty good example of like, if I’m standing here, any idiot could be up here.” Producer/Writer/Director Joe Swanberg (Drinking Buddies) 2016 SXSW Keynote talk How do you direct feature films in one year? One film at a time. That’s how Joe Swanberg did it. Well, technically it took him 14 months to […]
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Filmmakers Full of Magic & IdeasPosted by: screenwritingfromiowa in Screenwriting From Iowa“What can you do when you’re absolutely nowhere but feel like you are full of magic and ideas?” Filmmaker Mark Dupass “There’s one thing that keeps coming up to me over and over in my career–this very simple phrase—and I’m going to take a note from motivational speaker Tony Robbins for a second—and were going […] “I’ve been around a long enough also to know that careers are peaks and valleys. And it’s just really all about with how much grace and equanimity you can keep walking along in one direction. Whether you’re marching through the valley of the shadow of death or whether you’re at the pinnacle of whatever, it’s […] “Taxi Driver would definitely not get off the ground as a feature film today. No way…It costs a lot of money to make movies now. At that time, it cost $1 million to make Taxi Driver, and that was a lot of money for then. Now, it’s all about risk aversion, and the global economy that the […] |
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