Go Into The Story

“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.”  — Lewis Carroll

With the new season of “Lost” debuting in January and the unleashing of the Season 4 DVD series now, I thought it would be interesting to see what the series show runners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have to say. In this interview, the writer-producers talk about the series

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“For some inexplicable reason long, fat, hard-to-swallow pills inevitably go down sideways — never narrow end first.” © 2008 Kurt Brown & Scott Myers

The Spirit Award nominees were announced yesterday with three movies dominating the list: “Ballast,” an austere drama about a grieving man who forms a bond with a woman and her young son, “Frozen River,” a somber tale about the relationship between two poverty-stricken women, and “Rachel Getting Married,” an

“My theory about creative work is that 99 percent of it is intention. When you go in with the intention of exploring something real, then that’s what you’ll get no matter what’s around it. It may not even be successful — people may not like it and it

Okay, so you’ve just typed FADE OUT of the first draft of your latest screenplay. What’s the first thing you do? Celebrate and get drunk? No, that’s the second thing you do. The first thing you do is print out a copy of your script, stick it

“It’s said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies — because you never know when you’ll have to work with them.”  — Lana Turner

“I think that you’ve got to be prepared to write a load of nonsense to start with and then you can tart it up. The business of getting going, getting started, is enormously important, and this can be physical. Solvitur Ambulando as the Romans used to say, which means

This week marked the end of a great TV series: “The Shield”. Created by writer Shawn Ryan, the series ran for 7 seasons on the cable net FX. Here’s a nice write-up in Time magazine about the place of the series in recent TV history. And it is

A number of the video interviews on this site are with filmmakers known primarily for their directing, but also as it turns out includes screenwriting. Brian De Palma is one of those talents. While he has directed such notable movies as Carrie (1976), Scarface (1983), Casualities of War (1989), and