Great Scene: “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” Butch and Sundance return to the Hole in the Wall Gang… and a challenge.
Screenwriting 101: Francis Ford Coppola “When you make a movie, always try to discover what the theme of the movie is in one or two words. Every time I made a film, I always knew…
Page One: “Raging Bull” (1980) Screenplay by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin, based on the book by Jake LaMotta
Script To Screen: “The Apartment” A key revelation scene from my favorite movie, the 1960 The Apartment, written by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. “Izzy” Diamond.
On Writing “This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to…
Sundays with Stephen King’s “On Writing” A series featuring reflections on writing from the famed author’s memoir.
Reader Question: How to go about the query letter process? “Is there any direction as to how to go about the query process? Should I target a few dream-list agencies or should I paint the town with…
The Inward Path of the Protagonist’s Journey Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell remind us that the outer journey of the hero is about the inner journey into the Self.
Video: Richard Curtis on Writing Romantic Comedies Observations by the screenwriter of such notable movies as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Love Actually.
Character Introductions: Part 6 Think there’s nothing to introducing characters in a script? Think again!
Great Scene: “A Quiet Place” In a brief respite from the monster’s violence, Evelyn and Lee confront the pain of the past as it exists in the present… and their…
The Theology of Cinema: Predestination “The story you write about your Protagonist is in some ways predestined, the specific combination of the character’s life circumstances…
Interview (Video): Brad Bird A conversation with the writer-director of such films as The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, and Incredibles 2.
Character Introductions: Part 5 Think there’s nothing to introducing characters in a script? Think again!
90 Words for “looks” and 115 Words for “walks” Movies are primarily a visual medium. Therefore as screenwriters, we need to think visually… and write visually.
How They Write a Script: Richard Brooks Another in the Go Into The Story series “How They Write a Script,” excerpts from interview with notable Hollywood screenwriters. Today we…
Page One: “Point Blank” (1967) Screenplay by Alexander Jacobs and David Newhouse & Rafe Newhouse, novel by Donald E. Westlake
Character Introductions: Part 4 Think there’s nothing to introducing characters in a script? Think again!
