Screenwriting 101: Stanley Kubrick “A film is — or should be — more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind…
Page One: “To Catch a Thief” (1955) Screenplay by John Michael Hayes, based on the novel by David Dodge
Page One: “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” (2018) Screenplay by Sofia Alvarez, based on the novel by Jenny Han
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…
