Friday, October 29, 2010

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – Another Movie I Like

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William Goldman , who wrote the script for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , is one of the most respected screenwriters in the history o...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Changing the Verb

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Last season I was a writer for the show Hoarders . That’s the A&E reality show about people who are compulsive hoarders and the problems...
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Friday, October 22, 2010

My new book is out(ish)!

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I know some of you out there have been waiting for my new book The Golden Theme, well it’s sort of here. What I mean is that it is availa...
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Monday, October 04, 2010

A Few Thoughts on Learning

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  “Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.” -- Benjamin Franklin Before I start this blog post I wi...
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Friday, September 24, 2010

You don't know what you don't know

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"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects ."  ~Will Rogers In my life I have known many artists who dismiss the idea ...
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Friday, September 10, 2010

Happy Birthday, Scott!

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This is not my regular kind of post. Today would have been the birthday of my good friend Scott, whom I met 30 years ago. And since this ...
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010

We Have Just Entered The Twilight Zone...

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"I happen to think that the singular evil of our time is prejudice. It is from this evil that all other evils grow and multiply....
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Monday, August 23, 2010

Working Hard for the Money

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My step father once told me, when I was a kid, that what made someone a professional rather than an amateur was that they were paid for w...
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Thursday, July 22, 2010

My Own Sixth Sense -- Why Shyamalan is Not Serling and Never Was

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"OVERALL THEME LEADS TO CHARACTERS THEN ON TO PLOT" -- Rod Serling First let me say that I debated with myself about writing ...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Here’s Another Movie I Like -- Norma Rae

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I have many films that I love, but there are only a few I wish I had made. One of those films is Paper Moon. And then there are a few films ...
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Friday, June 11, 2010

If it's Good Enough for Mozart...

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"People make a mistake who think that my art has come easily to me. Nobody has devoted so much time and thought to composition as I. Th...
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Life: The Other Kind of Research

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“I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea tha...
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Too much of a good thing: The pitfalls of research

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"If your work shows, you're in trouble." --Chuck Jones I was once writing a script on a particular topic, and as part of my...
Friday, April 16, 2010

This Is Not a Pipe: The Value of Research

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Before I start I want to thank all of you who have promoted my new book on your blogs. And also thank you all very much who have bought the...
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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Of course you could just wait for the movie...

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Thanks, everyone, for visiting this blog. I’m still getting used to the idea that people care what I have to say. Some people hate what I sa...
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Friday, February 19, 2010

How to be Original

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"All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
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Monday, November 16, 2009

The Rabbit Doesn't Always Win

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Last weekend I guest lectured for some friends who co-teach a screenwriting class and something came up that I see happen a lot. As I taught...
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