All posts by: paul peditto

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Chat- Summer

December 15, 2012 0 Comment

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 […]

Somebody ask me if you need an agent to start your career as a writer. Go ahead, I’ll wait… The answer is no. Ask me if you need to submit to screenwriting contests to start your career as a filmmaker. The answer is no. Ask me if you need to go to LA to start […]

Chat- Beginnings

December 1, 2012 0 Comment

We’re going to try something new. I want to give you a real-time look at how a micro-budget movie is made. This will be chronology; it will be insight from the inside, the life and making of the movie CHAT. Self-serving? Sure. This is SCRIPT GODS, I am happy to cop to selfishness. I hope […]

“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.” -Erma Bombeck It’s Thanksgiving week, and as with many holiday scenarios, my own Thanksgiving will be spent with family and friends. In my case, actually, ex-family. I spend the holidays with my brother’s ex-wife’s […]