Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.
March 22, 2012
Quote of the Day: W.B. Yeats
March 21, 2012
Script: Fight Club
This script for Fight Club was written by Jim Uhls based on the novel by Chuck Palahnuik.
March 21, 2012
Quote of the Day: John Ruskin
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
March 20, 2012
Screenwriter Profile: Quentin Tarantino
The Writer:
Few writers have a style quite as distinctive as Quentin Tarantino. He’s eccentric to be sure, but also a film genius. He’s the writer/director behind such classics as Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, and Kill Bill. Django Unchained, was one of the top scripts on the 2011 Black List.
A bit of trivia about Tarantino films: Every feature film he’s written features a scene in which at least three characters are all pointing their guns at each other.
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March 20, 2012
Quote of the Day: Julian Fellowes
Every writer has to make an emotional journey from artist sitting in attic to being part of a business. The writer of a film is like Tinkerbell. You are only there because people believe in you. The moment they don’t, because you’re a pain the arse, you’ve lost.
March 19, 2012
Quote of the Day: William Faulkner
The writer’s only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one… If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies.
March 16, 2012
Quote of the Day: Kevin Crossley-Holland
I see the role of the writer as creating a room with big windows and leaving the reader to imagine. It’s a meeting on the page.
March 15, 2012
Script: Memento
Memento is one of my favorite films, and it’s considered one of the scripts that novice writers should never attempt to emulate. But that doesn’t mean you can’t learn quite a bit from reading it. This script was written by Christopher Nolan based on a short story by Jonathan Nolan.
March 15, 2012
Quote of the Day: Stephen King
Fiction is a lie, and good fiction is the truth inside the lie.
March 14, 2012
Script: The Shawshank Redemption
Here is the first draft of The Shawshank Redemption, written by Frank Darabont. This script is a great example of how to use voice-over effectively.
