“Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it” “Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.”
2018 Mid-Year Spec Script Deal Report All the information you need on every confirmed spec script deal through the midpoint of this year.
The Business of Screenwriter: Get a damn good lawyer! The most expensive lesson I ever learned in Hollywood.
Daily Dialogue — July 19, 2018 “A gold medal is a wonderful thing. But if you’re not enough without one, you’ll never be enough with one.”
Reader Question: What should I do if a project sells in Hollywood which is similar to a script I’m… Before you jump, step back from the ledge, and consider the following.
Script To Screen: “Get Shorty” A scene from the 1995 movie Get Shorty, screenplay by Scott Frank, book by Elmore Leonard.
Daily Dialogue — July 18, 2018 “Because a man who doesn’t spend time with his family can never be a real man.”
Screenwriting 101: Don Winslow “I’m not one of those novelists who looks at screenwriting as a lesser form — it’s an extremely demanding art that requires incredible…
Daily Dialogue — July 17, 2018 Aaron: I know you care about him. I’ve never seen you like this about anyone, so please don’t take it wrong when I tell you that I believe…
Dave, did you hate Greenberg enough to want to keep READING the script? The major studios would NEVER put out a movie with a Protagonist as unlikable as Greenberg. But Noah Baumbach can do it because… he’s Noah…
How do the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting readers judge a script? The criteria they use provides a good list of questions for screenwriters to assess their own writing.
“When should I enter and exit a scene?” In some ways, it’s as important what you omit from a scene as what you choose to keep.
30 Days of Screenplays, Day 14: “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” Take up the challenge! Read 30 screenplays in 30 days!
On Writing “A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been…
Daily Dialogue — July 16, 2018 “Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care…
Interview (Video): Boots Riley and Lakeith Stanfield Q&A with the writer-director of Sorry to Bother You and one of its lead actors.
Francois Truffaut interviews Alfred Hitchcock 25 episode series from a week-long 1962 conversation between the two great filmmakers.
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