Screenwriting Quote of the Day #88 (Ray Bradbury Pt. 3)

“I wasn’t trying to predict the future. I was trying to prevent it.”
                               Ray Bradbury
                               On writing Fahrenheit 451 
It would be a fitting end to writing about [...]

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Screenwriting Quote of the Day #87 (Ray Bradbury Pt. 2)

Before Ray Bradbury wrote his masterpiece Fahrenheit 451, and before his over 500 other short stories, and before the TV shows and movies based on his writings, he put in his 10,000 hours of learning how to write.
“I wrote at least a thousand words a day every day from the age of twelve on. For [...]

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Screenwriting Quote of the Day #86 (Ray Bradbury)

“Zest. Gusto. How rarely one hears these words used. How rarely do we see people living, or for that matter, creating by them. Yet if I were asked to name the most important items in a writer’s make-up, the things that shape his material and rush him along the road to where he we wants [...]

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James T. Kirk, Iowa & the Future

“Every town has festivals of some kind, not too many of them deal with something happening over 200 years from now.”
                                                            Phil Richman
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Re-Writing Screenwriter John August

It’s not every day when you get the chance to re-write a major Hollywood screenwriter — so I’ll try to tread lightly. Recently screenwriter John August posted an impromptu Q&A video on his website. Here’s one of his exchanges:
“Stranger than Fiction writes in to ask, ‘As a married mother of three whose husband is very established [...]

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Screenwriting Quote of the Day #85 (Michael Schiffer)

“If you take the occasional seminar and come away with one great tip you didn’t know before, that’s a good thing. But I’ve come to believe you only learn on your own by doing it, by trying to tell stories that work. When you write 14-20 screenplays, you begin to internalize a sense of timing [...]

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Screenwriting Quote of the Day #84 (Lt. Colonel Jack Lewis)

“I’ve been told that I’m not smart enough to realize I can’t tilt windmills and win, but tenacity has a life and a way all its own, I’ve found. If one approach to a problem doesn’t work, figure out how to go around it”
Jack Lewis
Since today is Memorial Day I wanted to find a quote [...]

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Screenwriting Quote of the Day #83 (Stephen Susco)

“(USC Film School) made me realize that this wasn’t something I could take lightly; if I was serious about it, I’d have to get my butt in gear.”
Stepehen Susco
screenwriter, The Grudge, Red
Years ago I heard it said that there were plenty of screenwriters in L.A. who had never had a movie produced but were [...]

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Screenwriting Quote of the Day #82 (Blake Snyder)

Blake Snyder, screenwriter and author of the popular screenwriting book Save the Cat, was recently Interviewed by Demetria Dixon and this was one of her questions followed by Blake’s answer:
You’ve talked about the “touched by the divine” moment . Would you expand on that?
Blake: I think we write stories [...]

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Screenwriting from Space (Star Trek)

No one would confuse me with a Trekkie. In fact, I’ve never seen a Star Trek movie. And chances are good that whenever the TV show was on when I was a kid that I was outside playing ball. But when a movie has an opening weekend of $75 million and has made over $200 [...]

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