It gets annoying, doesn’t it? All the experts–and yeah, me too–telling you how to write dialogue? As if it were actually possible that I could teach you how to be funny… Between Columbia College and Chicago Filmmakers I’ve had maybe a thousand students in the last decade. Yet the question remains…can I actually teach you […]
SEPTEMBER, 2012 Fresh eyes! Boris and I pick up the script again, but not until some “philosophical” questions are settled: –What movie are we making? The influences are varied: HARDCORE or the THE MACHINIST? CLEAN, SHAVEN or PI? MULHOLLAND DRIVE to MEMENTO? –What is the tone? We want it out there, but how far out […]
I don’t want it to seem that my recent obsession with micro-budget is for everyone, or that by any means is it your only option toward a career in screenwriting. I’ve almost certainly over-simplified the process by telling you there are really only three movies you can write—Studio, Indy, or Micro. So, how about defining […]
SCRIPT GODS wishes you all a happy and healthy, chilled out and sane, mellow Christmas and New Year! 2012… cataclysmic year. Don’t know about you guys but I could use a bit less drama in 2013. Lots of good stuff this year, but LOTS of fucked up stuff too. Happy to clean the slate and move on… […]
MARCH, 2012 I’m an outliner– it’s my Linus Blanket. I just feel more at ease knowing where I’m going ahead of time. The difference between my approach and, say, Syd Field, is that I recognize there are all sorts of processes. While it might be right for me to want to know every scene in […]
