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Working screenwriters discuss
in their own words a particular
aspect of screenwriting,
from the mechanics of writing
to the personal and professional
impact that writing has
had on their lives.
04/20/07 — "Closer to Fine: The Closer She Gets' Craig Ouellette," by Danny Munso
04/13/07 — "Under Starter's Orders:
Drive's Tim Minear," by Jason Davis
04/13/07 — "The Science Behind An All-New Food Group:
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters' Dave Willis & Matt Maillaro," by Peter Clines
04/06/07 — "Dirty Little Secrets:
Black Book's Gerard Soeteman and Paul Verhoeven," by Ari Eisner
03/23/07 — "The Naked City:
The Making of the Movie," by Malvin Wald
03/09/07 — "How I Created the Police Procedural Genre,
Or:
Going Back to School," by Malvin Wald
03/09/07 — "It's All About The Next Thing": 300's Zack Snyder on Directing," by Jeremy Smith
02/23/07 — "The Horror of Who: Coupling and Doctor Who's Steven Moffat," by Jason Davis
02/23/07 — "The Heart of Who:
Doctor Who's Paul Cornell," by Jason Davis
02/16/07 — "Romance, College, and Other Humorous Pastimes:
Starter for 10's David Nicholls," by Peter Clines
02/09/07 — "Everybody's Watching...Online," by Jason Davis
01/19/07 — "Aces Wild: Smokin' Aces' Joe Carnahan," by Ben Rock
01/05/07 — "Living History:
A Revolutionary Idea," by Malvin Wald
12/29/06 — "Death Becomes Her: The Dead Girl's Karen Moncrieff," by Jenelle Riley
12/15/06 — "Close Encounters of the Christmas Kind:
Alien Xmas' Stephen Chiodo & Jim Strain," by Danny Munso
11/22/06 — "In Bloom: Orchids' Bryce Dallas Howard," by Danny Munso
11/17/06 — "Facing the Day: Day Break's Jeffrey Bell," by Jason Davis
11/10/06 — "Playing Piano in a War Zone, Part 2: Battlestar Galactica's Anne Cofell Saunders," by Jeffrey A. Dobberpuhl, Esq.
11/10/06 — "Mentioning the Unmentionables:
F*ck's Steve Anderson," by Danny Munso
11/06/06 — "Playing Piano in a War Zone, Part 1:
Battlestar Galactica's Anne Cofell Saunders," by Jeffrey A. Dobberpuhl, Esq.
10/27/06 — "Carving Out a Franchise:
Saw III's Leigh Whannell," by Sean Siska
10/20/06 — "Driving Instructor: Driving Lessons' Jeremy Brock," by Danny Munso
10/13/06 — "Still Holding a Grudge:
The Grudge 2's Stephen Susco," by Jeff Goldsmith
10/13/06 — "Scripting the Sovereign:
The Queen's Peter Morgan," by Jason Davis
10/06/06 — "Bridging the Gap:
J. Michael Straczynski and His Audience," by Jason Davis
09/29/06 — "Life on The Street:
The Street's Jimmy McGovern," by Jason Davis
09/15/06 — "When the Saints Go Marching In
(To the Movie Theater):
Mormon Filmmaker John Moyer," by Amber Dawn Lee
09/01/06 — "Revisiting a Cult…Classic: The Wicker Man's Neil LaBute," by Jason Davis
08/18/06 — "Escape Artist:
Prison Break's Paul Scheuring," by Tom Matthews
08/18/06 — "Hour of the Wolf:
10th & Wolf's Bobby Moresco," by Jenelle Riley
08/11/06 — "Out of His Time:
Life on Mars' Matthew Graham," by Jason Davis
08/11/06 — "Just Do It:
Albuquerque, New Mexico Calls My Bluff," by Jim Mercurio
08/07/06 — "Living History:
See You in Court, Mister Mason," by Malvin Wald
08/07/06 — "Twenty Years in the Making:
Brothers of the Head's Tony Grisoni," by Danny Munso
07/28/06 — "Brothers in Arms: Brothers of the Head's Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe," by Danny Munso
07/21/06 — "Independent Film's Best Man: The Groomsmen's Edward Burns," by Danny Munso
07/21/06 — "First-Time Series Producers Strike Greenlight:
Eureka's Andrew Cosby and Jaime Paglia," by Jilena Cori
07/07/06 — "More Ideas Than Can Fit:
Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man Chest's
Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio," by Sean Kennelly
06/30/06 — "An Interview With the Puzzlemaster:
Wordplay's Will Shortz," by Jason Davis
06/23/06 — "A Wednesday/Thursday Guy:
Wordplay Director Patrick Creadon," by Jason Davis
05/05/06 — "Hard-Boiled High School: Veronica Mars' Rob Thomas," by David Michael Wharton
04/21/06 — "The Long Twilight: Carol Serling and the Rod Serling Conference," by Jason Davis
04/14/06 — "Laugh Till You Scream: Scary Movie 4's Craig Mazin," by John R. Salcido
04/07/06 — "Smilovic's Lucky Number: Lucky Number Slevin's Jason Smilovic," by Sean Siska
04/07/06 — "Play it Again, Bill:
Free Enterprise's Mark Altman and Robert Meyer Burnett," by Jeff Goldsmith
03/31/06 — "Crafting Killer Slug Lines:
Slither's James Gunn," by Jenelle Riley
03/24/06 — "Staging an Inside Job:
Inside Man's Russell Gewirtz," by Danny Munso
03/17/06 — "A Director Who Writes…If He Has To…
Alien Nation's Kenneth Johnson," by Jason Davis
03/10/06 — "Looking Back on Singing Soprano:
The Sopranos' Robin Green," by David Konow
02/24/06 — "Following His Instincts from Johannesburg to Jersey: Running Scared's Wayne Kramer," by Jason Fogelson
02/10/06 — "CS Recommends:
David Kipen's The Schreiber Theory:
A Radical Rewrite of American Film History," by Catherine Clinch
02/10/06 — "Piloting Your Pilot:
Writing The TV Pilot With Aury Wallington," by Ari Eisner
02/03/06 — "The Park City Report:
From Art School to the Son of Man at Sundance," by Cressandra Thibodeaux
01/20/06 — "Timing is Everything: This Terrible Business Has Been Good to Me's Norman Jewison," by David Konow
01/20/06 — "Chess with Sex: Norman Jewison on the Writing of The Thomas Crown Affair," by David Konow
12/23/05 — "Being Politically Incorrect: The Ringer's Ricky Blitt and Director Barry Blaustein," by Danny Munso
12/02/05 — "Sowing the Seeds of Laughter:
The Ice Harvest's director, Harold Ramis," by Tom Matthews
11/24/05 — "Pay Attention:
Or, 16 Emails = $16,000," by Jim Mercurio
11/24/05 — "A Rendezvous in a Dark Place: The Twilight Zone's J. Michael Straczynski," by Jason Davis
11/18/05 — "Wordplay: The Twilight Zone's Rockne S. O'Bannon," by Jason Davis
11/04/05 — "Youth Gone Wild:
Kids in America's Josh Stolberg," by Ari Eisner
10/28/05 — "Putting the Pieces Together Again:
Saw II's Darren Lynn Bousman," by Ari Eisner
10/28/05 — "Digging Up the Dirt on Jason:
Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th's Peter M. Bracke," by David Konow
10/21/05 — "Writing Is No Mystery
(Regardless of What You Do for a Living):
Where the Truth Lies' Author Rupert Holmes," by Deirdre McGill
10/21/05 — "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Mom:
Friday the 13th's Victor Miller," by David Konow
10/14/05 — "Crafting the Dream-State Bounty Hunter Biopic:
Domino's Richard Kelly," by Jeremy Smith
10/14/05 — "The Fog Rolls Back In:
The Fog's Cooper Layne," by David Konow
10/14/05 — "The Ins and Outs of Characterization:
Where the Truth Lies' Atom Egoyan," by Deirdre McGill
10/07/05 — "Vegging Out with the Father of Wallace and Gromit: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit's Nick Park," by Reg Seeton
10/07/05 — "The Cutting Edge:
Turning Stanley Kubrick's Horror Classic
Into a Romantic Comedy:
Shining's Rob Ryang," by Danny Munso
10/07/05 — "Producing Your Writing Career:
So You Want to be a
Producer's Lawrence Turman," by Jeff Goldsmith
10/07/05 — "'Pain Is Inevitable, Suffering Is an Option':
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio's
Jane Anderson," by Den Shewman
09/30/05 — "The Men Behind the Mask: MirrorMask's Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean," by Jason Davis
09/30/05 — "The Spirit of the Story:
The Constant Gardener's Jeffrey Caine," by Nick Birren
09/30/05 — "Divas and Shipmates and Clowns, Oh My… Green Street Hooligans' Josh Shelov," by Peter Clines
09/23/05 — "Francis Fregoli Tries to Forget
and Charlie Kaufman Loses Hope:
Two Live Audio Plays at the Theater of the New Ear," by Jeff Goldsmith
09/23/05 — "Recovering the Novel in Francis Ford Coppola's Classic: The Outsiders: The Complete Novel's Kim Aubrey," by Jason Davis
09/16/05 — "How to Adapt a Book Without Reading It: Just Like Heaven's Peter Tolan," by Nick Birren
09/16/05 — "Driving Narrative from a Driven Writer:
Just Like Heaven's Leslie Dixon," by Nick Birren
08/19/05 — "Prepare for Takeoff: Red Eye's Carl Ellsworth," by Nick Birren
08/19/05 — "Piloting the Scare Plane: Red Eye's Director, Wes Craven," by Nick Birren
07/29/05 — "The Politiks of Philosophy: The Edukators' Hans Weingartner," by Deirdre McGill
07/29/05 — "Action Off the Richter Scale: Stealth's W.D. Richter," by David Konow
07/23/05 — "Writing the Remake: Bad News Bears' Glenn Ficarra & John Requa," by Nick Randall
07/01/05 — "The Pulse of Great Drama: The Beat That My Heart Skipped's Jacques Audiard," by Danny Munso
06/17/05 — "What I'm Trying to Say Is...:Howl's Moving Castle's Cindy and Donald Hewitt," by Peter Clines
05/27/05 — "Visualizing the Unseen Antagonist: Glen Morgan, James Wong, and Final Destination 3," by Reg Seeton
05/13/05 — "Creating a Monster-in-Law: Anya Kockhoff from Spec to Screen," by Jason Davis
03/25/05 — "Living History: Life on Kosciuszko Street," by Malvin Wald
02/25/05 — "Turning a Chorus of Memories into an Oscar-Nominated Film: Les Choristes' Christophe Barratier," by Jeff Goldsmith
02/18/05 — "A Daughter, a Dog, and an Adaptation: Because of Winn-Dixie's Joan Singleton," by David Konow
01/21/05 — "Caller ID: Larry Cohen on Writing Cellular", by Michael Lent
10/29/04 — "The Cutting Edge of Low-Budget Thrillers: Saw's Leigh Whannell," by Den Shewman
08/27/04 — "Tracking Suspect Zero: Director E. Elias Merhige on Developing the Thriller", by Jeff Goldsmith
08/10/04 — "Body Snatchers, Big Trouble, and Buckaroo Banzai: The Quirky World of W.D. Richter (Part 2)," by David Konow
07/28/04 — "Living History: Triple Play: A Writer's Life in Sports," by Malvin Wald
06/17/04 — "Living History: I Remember Ronnie (Part Two)," by Malvin Wald
06/15/04 — "Living History: I Remember Ronnie (Part One)," by Malvin Wald
06/07/04 — "Living History: Encounters with Legends," by Malvin Wald
05/27/04 — "Married to Your Work:
Frankie and Johnny Are Married's Michael Pressman and Lisa Chase," by Dennis Sampson
05/24/04 — "Coming Home, 20 Years Later:
Stateside's Reverge Anselmo," by Den Shewman
05/17/04
— "Calling the Shots: Judith & Garfield
Reeves-Stevens on Writing the Van Helsing
Prequel," by Den Shewman
05/10/04 — "Making the Invisible Real: Jim &
Naomi & Kirsten Sheridan Write In America," by Samantha Plotkin
05/04/04
— "A Writer's Journey (Part Two),"
by Oliver Stone, edited by Erik Bauer
05/03/04
— "Dissecting the Shark: Writing Jaws,"
by Carl Gottleib, edited by David Konow
04/27/04 — "A Writer's Journey (Part One)," by Oliver Stone, edited by Erik Bauer
04/26/04
— "Tina Fey's Mean Laughs,"
by Jeff Goldsmith 04/19/04
— "Hooking the Showrunner," by Ari
Eisner 04/14/04
— "My Screenplays are My Novels: An Interview
With Quentin Tarantino," by Erik Bauer
04/12/04
— "Kirsten Enchanted," by Samantha
Plotkin 04/05/04
— "The Studio System," by Malvin Wald
03/29/04
— "The Art of Nightmares," by Wes Craven
03/22/04
— "Figuring Out the Trick," by Graham
Yost
03/15/04
— "Writing Biopics," by Scott Alexander
& Larry Karaszewski
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