Alec Berg on Silicon Valley
Alec Berg: why fact is funnier than fiction, the advantages of HBO's 10-episode seasons, and writing the way a musician would play.
By Donna Marie Miller. Screenwriter and producer of HBO’s current smash hit series Silicon Valley Alec Berg, who formerly worked on television sitcoms Seinfeld and Curb Your Enthusiasm, unabashedly admits to using other people’s real-life stories. In fact, he has built a lucrative career writing TV scripts about the real things real people say and […]
Linklater and Arquette: Boyhood’s Twelve Year Martini Shot
Richard Linklater and Patricia Arquette discuss studio financing, equal pay for women and tax incentives for moviemakers.
By Donna Marie Miller. Texas attracted the world’s attention with Boyhood, the movie written and directed by Richard Linklater, after being nominated for six Academy Awards including best picture last February. Today Linklater and one of the most recognizable faces from Boyhood, leading lady Patricia Arquette, have quickly become Texas spokespersons regarding the state of […]
Write Every Day: Screenwriting Advice from Scott Frank
Scott Frank talks about on how he became a writer, how luck has played a part in his career, and offers advice on how to improve your screenwriting craft.
By Donna Marie Miller. Screenwriter and director Scott Frank has one hard-and-fast rule that he says has led directly to his success: he writes every day — for at least 10 minutes. Some days, that effort stretches into two hours or at the most, four hours. I am at my desk or in my chair […]
Cast Away for Real: Taking Research to the Extreme
Writer Bill Broyles Jr. talks about why he feels he must always first walk in his main characters’ shoes.
By Donna Marie Miller. “You have to ground things in an honestly felt experience of your own. Sometimes that is an experience you’ve had yourself; other times you have to talk to people and try to get into their heads and try to experience what they did.” Bill Broyles Jr. In this exclusive […]
“The camera doesn’t know what it’s shooting” – Producing for Netflix
Producer Dana Brunetti discusses the award-winning House of Cards for Netflix, his short film competition for first time writers, and the upcoming film adaptation of 50 Shades of Grey.
By Donna Marie Miller. Seventeen years ago a chance meeting between actor Kevin Spacey and Dana Brunetti led to a successful professional collaboration in the movie industry. Today, Brunetti pays the favor forward by giving unknown screenwriters their first shot at filmmaking with Jameson First Shot short film competition. The Brunetti and Spacey partnership formed […]
