Screenwriting 101: David Mamet “Theoretically, perfectly, what one wants to do is put the protagonist and the audience in exactly the same position. The main question in…
On Writing “If there is a secret to writing, I haven’t found it yet. All I know is you need to sit down, clear your mind, and hang in there.”
Screenwriting 101: Jeanie Macpherson “Each scene must be a drama in itself. The whole picture must be made up of a series of small dramas. This makes the completed picture a…
The Business of Screenwriting: Commencement of Principal Photography When your movie officially starts production, that can trigger a writer’s payday.
On Writing “I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.”
Go Into The Story interview: Jessica Bendinger An in-depth conversation with the screenwriter of the fan favorite 2000 comedy Bring It On.
Screenwriting 101: David Lynch “The world to me is a mixture of the two. Intuition is thought and feeling working together. You intuit things in life, right? The language…
Tweetstorm: F. Scott Frazier on Writing Action Set-Pieces A series of tweets delving into what goes into crafting action scenarios.
On Writing “I don’t know of a greater privilege than being allowed to tell a story, except perhaps to listen to one.”
The Business of Screenwriting: Celebrate your victories Based on my experiences as a screenwriter in Hollywood, there are many things I can advise you to do that are not particularly enjoyable…
Screenwriting 101: David Lynch “It’s a simple thing… If you want to make a feature film, you get ideas for 70 scenes. Put them on 3-by-5 cards. As soon as you have 70…
Go Into The Story Interview: David Rabinowitz and Charlie Wachtel My in-depth interview with the co-writers of the movie BlacKkKlansman.
Tweetstorm: Monica Beletsky on Establishing POV in a Pilot Script “Whose POV are we in? Why do we care? Whose journey are we on?”
Screenwriting 101: Baz Luhrmann “Packing the house was the primary and foremost concern for Shakespeare.”
The Business of Screenwriting: Bidding War They don’t happen in Hollywood as often as they used to … but a hot spec script can still generate interest with multiple buyers.
On Writing “Since ‘Huckleberry Finn,’ or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.”
2015 Go Into The Story Screenwriters Roundtable A conversation with Jessica Bendinger, Lindsay Devlin, Stephany Folsom, Liz W. Garcia, Julia Hart, and Lisa Joy.
Page One: “The Zone of Interest” (2023) Written by Jonathan Glazer, based on the novel by Martin Amis
Screenwriting 101: Ernst Lubitsch “It is the task of the screenwriter to invent little pieces of business that are so characteristic and give so deep an insight into his…
2012 Go Into The Story Screenwriters Roundtable A conversation with Chris Borrelli, F. Scott Frazier, Chris McCoy, Justin Rhodes, Greg Russo, John Swetnam
