“There is no such thing as an action movie.” Steven E. de Souza on Screenwriting

Steven E. de Souza discusses adaptations and writing from the villain's perspective, offers advice on writer's block, and reveals who wrote that line from Die Hard.

By Dan Frazier. It’s impossible to imagine Hollywood without a barrage of summer blockbusters, but in 1985 the action genre was defined when a bodybuilder-cum-actor starred in an explosion friendly flick titled Commando. Behind the creative death scenes and heavily accented one-liners, was the work of screenwriter Steven E. de Souza –who had already established […]