“God gave us so many emotions, and so many strong ones. Every human being, even if he is an idiot, is a millionaire in emotions.” — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Most people would likely think of Roman Polanski as a director, but he’s actually got 30 screenwriting credits including Rosemary’s Baby (1968), Chinatown (1974), Tess (1979), Frantic (1988), and The Ninth Gate (1999). In this fascinating interview from the great TV series “Scene by Scene,” Polanski talks about

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Author, screenwriter, and director Michael Crichton died yesterday in Los Angeles. His writing credits include The Anddromeda Strain (1971), Coma 1978), Jurassic Park (1993), Twister (1996), Timeline (2003), and the long-running hit TV series “E.R.”, which he created and exec produced. Here are some articles on Crichton: Daily

“The more rapidly a salesman talks is directly proportional to the amount of bullshit he’s full of.” © 2008 Kurt Brown & Scott Myers Comment Archive

“When Gauguin left Van Gogh, Van Gogh painted Gauguin’s room, and you can feel the abandonment in the emotion of the painting. What he got on canvas was an emotion of something that’s invisible. Emotion, by definition, is invisible. So cinema is, by definition, dealing with the invisible.

“Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bullion cubes.”  — John Le Carre

We talked about the importance of story ideas here, the idea being that in order to come up with concepts, writers need to generate a lot of them. Then I teased you with this: But how to come up with story ideas? Drop by on Sunday. I’ve got a

“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.”  — Mel Brooks

The NY Times offers up its annual November — December movie overview today. The print version is 30 pages long, crammed with full-page ads for a variety of upcoming movies including Four Christmases, Gran Torino, Yes Man, Quantum of Solace, Bolt, Milk, The Reader, and Seven Pounds. Some of the

Stirling Silliphant (1918–1996) is a Hollywood icon with numerous notable film writing credits including Village of the Damned (1960), In the Heat of the Night (1967), Charly (1968), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Towering Inferno (1974), and The Enforcer (1976). Silliphant is remembered for two hit TV series in

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