Which Lie Did I Tell : More Adventures in the Screen Trade
William Goldman’s latest effort is a combination of Hollywood revelations, screenwriter how-to manual and exploration of the creative process. Which Lie did I Tell?, like his 1983 Adventures in the Screen Trade, is a very personal, revealing look into the life of a writer and the inner workings of Hollywood. The title, a line borrowed from a producer trying to keep track of the falsehoods he had just spouted during a telephone conversation, is both a documentary account and indictment of the business of Hollywood. Pulling no punches, Read the rest of this entry »
Screenwriting 101: The Essential Craft of Feature Film Writing
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Neill Hicks, a successful screenwriter whose credits include Rumble In The Bronx and First Strike, brings the clarity and practical instruction familiar to his UCLA students to screenwriters everywhere. In his refreshingly straightforward style, Hicks tells the beginning screenwriter how the mechanics of Hollywood storytelling work, and how to use those elements to create a script with blockbuster potential without falling into cliches. Read the rest of this entry »
The Screenwriter Within : How to Turn the Movie in Your Head into a Salable Screenplay
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If you’ve ever dreamed of writing a screenplay, The Screenwriter Within is the book for you. Insightful, inspirational, and wildly irreverent, it takes you through all the stages of the writing process, using references to hit movies and the author’s personal experience to show you how to:
How Not to Write a Screenplay: 101 Common Mistakes Most Screenwriters Make
How Not to Write a Screenplay is an invaluable addition to any aspiring screenwriter’s shelf–and you’d best make the shelf within arm’s reach of the computer. Author Dean Martin Flinn, an experienced script reader, details the common rookie mistakes that drive script readers crazy. Flinn makes no pretense of being able to teach anyone how [...]
American Beauty: The Shooting Script (Newmarket Shooting Scripts)
“I read the screenplay and nearly fell out of bed. I thought I better meet him quick before someone else read it.”–Kevin Spacey
Actors and critics alike have praised Alan Ball’s first feature film screenplay, which tells the off-kilter story of a midlife crisis suffered by Lester Burnham (played by Spacey). For fans of the film’s [...]
James Cameron
James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian film director, producer and screenwriter. His writing and directing work includes The Terminator and Titanic. To date, his directorial efforts have grossed approximately US$1.1 billion domestically, unadjusted for inflation. After several feature films, Cameron turned his focus to documentary filmmaking and the co-development of the [...]
Sidney Buchman
Screenwriter and producer Sidney Buchman is notable for his sophisticated comedies such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and Here Comes Mister Jordan. Born in Duluth, Minnesota and educated at the University of Minnesota and Columbia, Buchman began his career working at London’s Old Vic theater as an assistant stage director.
He later returned stateside to [...]
Frank Oz
Though his place in pop culture was assured in the early 1960s when he began operating and voicing many of the most memorable Muppets – including Cookie Monster, Bert, Fozzie the Bear, and his most famous creation, Miss Piggy – puppeteer Frank Oz established an impressive second career as a director of such eclectic films [...]
Paul Newman
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is out-grossing my films.
— Paul Newman
ALMOST none of the film stars whose mixed fortune it is to become sex symbols in the eyes of the moviegoing public are allowed to age gracefully, but American actor Paul Newman has managed to maintain his matinee-idol status for over 40 [...]
John Turturro
My interest lies in my self-expression–what’s inside of me–not what I’m in.
— John Turturro
WHEN screenwriter John Patrick Shanley penned the Oscar-winning script for Norman Jewison’s 1987 romantic comedy Moonstruck, he hoped to convince the director to cast his close friend, actor John Turturro, in the role of the lovestruck baker who woos and wins his [...]
