Notes and Negotiation, a Screenwriter’s Guide

Award-winning scriptwriter Greg Bernstein applies negotiation theory to the emotionally-charged business of responding to notes on your script.

By Gregory Bernstein. Last movie I wrote was about Okies in the Dust Bowl. You’d never know because when it reached the screen, the whole thing played on a torpedo boat. Joe Gillis from Sunset Blvd., written by Charles Brackett, D.M. Marshman, Jr., and Billy Wilder. We screenwriters complete a draft, turn ourselves inside out […]