Screenwriting 101: Charlie Kaufman “My theory about creative work is that 99 percent of it is intention. When you go in with the intention of exploring something real, then…
Page One: “Thank You for Your Service” (2017) Written by Jason Hall, based on the book by David Finkel
On Writing “The writer has to have patience, the perseverance to just sit there alone and grind it out. And if it’s not worth doing that, then he…
Page One: “Testament of Youth” (2014) Screenplay by Juliette Towhidi, based on the memoir of Vera Brittain
Go Into The Story Interview: Roberto Bentivegna My interview with the writer of the 2012 Black List script The Eel.
Page One: “Terminator Genisys” (2015) Written by Laeta Kalogridis & Patrick Lussier, characters created by James Cameron & Gale Anne Hurd
Screenwriting 101: Lawrence Kasdan “Very often my films are about the conflict between our ideas and our desires, and that’s where the drama is for me. We know how we’re…
Go Into The Story Interview: Minhal Baig My conversation with the writer-director of the feature film Hala.
On Writing “I can’t allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.”
Go Into The Story Interview: Rajiv Joseph and Scott Rothman My interview with 2012 Black List writers for their script Draft Day.
Page One: “Tarzan’s Secret Treasure” (1941) Original screenplay by Myles Connolly and Paul Gangelin, based upon the characters created by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Screenwriting 101: Robert Mark Kamen “Write what makes you excited, and if it makes you excited, and you’re any good, it will excite somebody else. And if it doesn’t excite…
Go Into The Story Interview: Timothy Ware-Hill Timothy Ware-Hill: Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Page One: “Sweet Smell of Success” (1957) Screenplay by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, novelette by Ernest Lehman
Screenwriting 101: Robert Mark Kamen “If you’ve got craft, you got game. If you got game, you can write your way in and out of anything. Writing is the best gig in the whole…
Script Analysis: “The Woman King” — Scene-By-Scene Breakdown Here is my take on this exercise from a previous series of posts — How To Read A Screenplay:
