“Here’s my unsolicited advice to any aspiring screenwriters who might be reading this: Don’t ever agonize about the hordes of other writers who are ostensibly your competition. No one else is capable of doing what you do.”
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Archive for October, 2008
Juno Has Another Baby (Emmy)
Posted in Screenwriting Biz, screenwriting, tagged Colin Covert, Crystal, Diablo Cody, Emmy Award, Juno, Mary Tyler Moore, Minneapolis, Oprah Winfrey, Quarantine, Scott W. Smith, screenwriters outside L.A., screenwriting, screenwriting from iowa, Star Tribune, Starbucks, Target, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, TV Guide on October 26, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Movies from Main St.
Posted in Screenwriting Road Trips, screenwriting, tagged screenwriting, Iowa, Florida, AFI, Cedar Falls, It's a wonderful life, Texas, Harold Ramis, Northern Exposure, Groundhog Day, Illinois, Main St, Punxsutawney, Pennsyvania, Andres Duany, University of Miami, Courtyard Grill, Woodstock, Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell, American Graffiti, The Last Picture Show, My Dog Skip, The Andy Griffith Show, Cars, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Truman Show, Places in the Heart, Walt Disney, Thomas Kinkade, Hoosiers, Seaside, Sinclair Lewis, Rod Serling. Twlight Zone, The Painter of Light, Dr. Tony Grant, Don Henley, Denton, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberkit, small towns, Making Groundhog Day, Danny Rubin, Richard Karlgaard, Pennsylvania on October 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“Small town people are more real, more down to earth.”
Groundhog Day
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Just Keep Writing (tip 15)
Posted in screenwriting, screenwriting tips, tagged Art & Fear, Art Buchwald, Blake Snyder, Brook A. Wharton, Buchwald v. Paramount, Coming into America, David Bayles, Dharma and Greg, Eddie Murphy, Entertainment law, First comes marriage, Flash of Genius, Greg Kinnear, John Seabrook, Life on Mars, Marc Abraham, Mark Litwak, Philip Raisback, Ray Dowd, Robert Kearns The Washington Post, Rudy, Save the Cat, screenwriting, Stand by Me, Ted Orland, The Earnest Gaines Story, The Wonder Years, The Writer Got Screwed, Valerie Bertinelli, walk-on football player script, What Happens on Vegas on October 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Virtually all artists spend some of their time (and some artists all of their time) producing work that no one else much cares about.”
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Screenwriting from Massachusetts
Posted in Screenwriting Road Trips, screenwriting, tagged Boston, Cedar Rapids, Erich segak, Eugene O'Neil, Frank Pierson, George Clloney, Harvard, Irish Democrat Pub & Grille, Jame Agee, John F. Kennedy, Massachusetts, Matt Damon, movies made in Boston, Peter Benchley, Ron Bass, screenwriters from Boston, screenwriting from Massachusetts, Sebastian Junger, The Half King, The Perfect Storm, Wesleyan College on October 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“I was just a guy with a pen and paper and an idea for a book.”
Sebastian Junger
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Sex, Lies, & Mr. Bill (Screenwriting from Louisiana)
Posted in Screenwriting Road Trips, screenwriting, tagged Alexandyr Kent Apostle, Anne Rice, Annye Refoe, Baton Rouge, Benicio Del Toto, Bubble, Che Cuevara, Che Guevara, Erin Brockovich, Ernest J. Gaines, Guerrilla, John Kennedy Toole, Josh Brolin, Lies and Videotape, Louisiana Film & TV, Mr. Bill, New Orleans, Oliver STone, Prairie Lake Drive-In Theate, Red camera, Robert Rodriguez, Saturday Night Live, Screenwriting from Louisiana, Sex Lies & Videotape, Southern Comfort, Stephen Abrose, Steven Soderbergh, Tennessee Williams, The Argentine, The Shreveport, Traffic., TRuman Capote, W on October 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“Ohh Nooo!!!”
Mr. Bill
”You could make a really good-looking movie right now for ten grand.”
Steven Soderbergh
The other day I saw Mr. Bill in a commercial [...]
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