Script To Screen: “All About Eve” A scene from the 1950 movie All About Eve, written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and featuring one of the most famous lines of dialogue in movie…
Page One: “Dark City” (1998) Screenplay by Alex Proyas and Lem Dobbs and David S. Goyer, story by Alex Proyas
Interview (Part 6): Kayla Sun My interview with the 2023 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 9(D): Surprise, Cause and Effect As I’ve been interviewing screenwriters, I typically ask what some of their influences are. One book title comes up over and over again…
Interview (Part 5): Kayla Sun My interview with the 2023 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Happy Birthday, Carl Jung: Screenwriting Guru! Swiss psychotherapist and founder of analytical psychology Carl Jung was born today in 1875. He died in 1961 at the age of 85.
Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 9(C): Episodic As I’ve been interviewing screenwriters, I typically ask what some of their influences are. One book title comes up over and over again…
Interview (Part 4): Kayla Sun My interview with the 2023 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 9(C): Episodic As I’ve been interviewing screenwriters, I typically ask what some of their influences are. One book title comes up over and over again…
The Business of Screenwriting: Sometimes you just have to say “Yes” I am sitting in the Beverly Hills office of my entertainment lawyer. In front of me is a contract. It’s for a writing assignment. My gig…
Interview (Part 3): Kayla Sun My interview with the 2023 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 9(B): Possibility, Probability and Necessity As I’ve been interviewing screenwriters, I typically ask what some of their influences are. One book title comes up over and over again…
Script To Screen: “Almost Famous” A terrific movie Almost Famous (2000), written and directed by Cameron Crowe. One of the keys to creating drama is to put characters under…
Interview (Part 2): Kayla Sun My interview with the 2023 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 9(A): Poet and Historian As I’ve been interviewing screenwriters, I typically ask what some of their influences are. One book title comes up over and over again…
Screenwriting 101: John August “While working on Big Fish, I got very Method: I’d stare at a mirror until I could get myself crying, and then I would start writing. It…
Page One: “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (2008) Screenplay by Eric Roth, story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord, short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Interview (Part 1): Kayla Sun My interview with the 2023 Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting winner.
Studying Aristotle’s “Poetics” — Part 8: Unity As I’ve been interviewing screenwriters, I typically ask what some of their influences are. One book title comes up over and over again…
On Writing “To be a novelist or a short story writer, you first have to pretend to be a writer or a short story writer.”
