Page One: “Three Thousand Years of Longing” (2022) Written by George Miller & Augusta Gore, based upon the short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by A.S. Byatt
On Writing “We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter…
Page One: “Those Who Walk Away” (2022) Consultant script by Spencer Moleda, Aaron Pollack, Robert Rippberger
Screenwriting 101: Stanley Kubrick “I think the best plot is no apparent plot. I like a slow start, the start gets under the audience’s skin and involves them so that they…
Page One: “Thor” (2011) Screenplay Ashley Edward Miller & Zack Stentz and Don Payne, story by J. Michael Straczynski and Mark Protosevich, comic book by Stan Lee &…
On Writing “I see the notion of talent as quite irrelevant. I see instead perseverance, application, industry, assiduity, will, will, will, desire…
Screenwriting 101: Norman Krasna “When you are committed to the skeleton of a beginning, a middle and an end, the cleverness is in concealing the skeleton. This is a…
Page One: “Thir13en Ghosts” (2001) Screenplay by Neal Marshall Stevens and Richard D’Ovidio, story by Robb White, Todd Alcott (uncredited), James Gunn (uncredited)
Page One: “The Thing from Another World” (1951) Screen play by Charles Lederer, based on the story “Who Goes There?” by John W. Campbell Jr., Howard Hawks (uncredited), Ben Hecht…
Screenwriting 101: Brian Koppelman “The job of the writer on a studio assignment is to deliver a shootable script as defined by other people — the director, actors…
Page One: “Thief” (1981) Written by Michael Mann, based on the book “The Home Invaders” by Frank Hohimer
On Writing “To me, the big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, what’s the right way to tell a particular story.”
Screenwriting 101: Simon Kinberg “In my experience, audiences go to movies to feel. When the movie starts to break down and it becomes too mechanical or organized, instead…
Screenwriting 101: Kyle Killen “Usually it’s about hiding whatever you wrote. The first time through people tend to tell each other what the scene is about, and in life…
Go Into The Story Interview: Spenser Cohen and Anna Halberg My conversation with 2013 Black List screenwriter and his producing partner.
On Writing “It is impossible to discourage the real writers — they don’t give a damn what you say, they’re going to write.”
