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Designed to help you navigate the screenwriting industry, Final Draft, interviews working screenwriters, agents, managers, and producers to show you how successful executives and writers mak...
Writer/Director/Actor/Editor Benny Safdie is known for defying expectations and using his sense of humor to make a splash. He even once show...
"We try to answer two questions before we say yes to a job or embark on a spec script: Why does the protagonist need this movie? And the oth...
"I didn't think I'd be a good fit as a writer if they were going to do a PG version of the story. That's not where my strength lies, so the...
"I love adaptations. The beauty of adaptation, especially a classic, like Shakespeare and Chekhov or Ibsen, they're such a gift because they...
"As you do draft after draft, it becomes shorter and rendered down. And [Keanu Reeves and I] would go through scenes going, 'Can people say...
"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election." –Otto Von Bismarck "It's funny, because when I was writing A...
"[My dad] really started to inhabit the characters, especially Ray, speaking as him during the writing process. That was when I realized thi...
"You have to love all your characters. Even if you're writing a bad guy. You, the writer, have to write them with love and empathy, and trea...
On today's episode, we speak with director Joe Wright whose new limited TV series Mussolini: Son of the Century , explores fascism through t...
"The thing that started it all off was me saying [the character Toxie] should be a guy in a suit. In other words, let's not do a computer-ge...
"Our goal in writing [ Sirens ] was to write something that makes you think, and offers the opportunity to re-examine your own assumptions t...
"Write your own anxieties. Get into your own psyche. I think if it scares you – like, I'm terrified of guns, and that's where The Purge came...
"Vampires hold incredible destructive power, and so we're very drawn to them, sort of like moths to a candle, right? I think that's sort of...
"One thing I've found in the crime genre is that homicides are always interesting. When somebody's killed, whatever that case may be, it's u...
"In my mind, Belle is going through life, at least our version of Belle – I've never met the real Belle – she's going through life with this...
"The most important thing that I've learned as a storyteller is that I have to treat every character in the show as though they're the lead...
"It's not ripped from the headlines. We're not using any of [the Buss family's] real-life stories and putting them into our show. Because Mi...
"It was a lot of empathizing. I would do long phone calls with Abel (Tesfaye, aka the Weeknd) after we had met, just basically talking to hi...
"Sometimes it's easier to find and access your truth through 'pretend' characters. So I had this embarrassment of riches of this true story...
"For me, I don't know how you could not make [a script] personal. I think drama allows you to hide how personal it is. I think that's kind o...
On today's episode, we speak to writer Brandon Osterman, whose short script 'The Naughty List' won last year's Final Draft Big Break Short S...
"One of the things we talked a lot about in the room is that very rarely do people set about their day saying, 'Okay, I'm going to go do som...
"If you can make the twists [in the story] hit your character in an emotional way and set up their emotional arc, then when the case twist i...
On today's episode of Write On, we chat with Kim Rosenstock, co-creator and co-showrunner for the new limited series, Dying For Sex , starri...
"I didn't really set out to make Cordelia (Uzo Aduba) quirky. I just wanted to make her distinctive. I just really thought about who I wante...
"Sameness is terrible. Your goal is to cut through it. If you have a unique perspective, you're going to take vampires or anything that ever...
"With an adaptation, you can never give back your first read. So, what are you taking away? What fills your soul? Why do you want to tell th...
"My recommendation to anybody who is writing animation is to take advantage of the things you can do in animation that you can't do in live...
"Fugler (Robert Carlyle) was a character that I really connected with from the beginning. I know it sounds a little strange that the Nazi wa...
"People think sequels are easier, and I'm like, 'No, no, it's much harder. It is much harder to write.' They have never written sequels, tho...
"The most subversive thing this show could do is make you cry… If you really boil down television, really cook it in the pan, it's the chara...
"If everything's being played on the surface, it's very hard to make that character come to life. You want hinterland, you want subtext. You...
"There's no greater laugh than when you're at your most vulnerable. You're at a funeral, or you're in church and something's happening and t...
"In most genre fiction where heroes and villains clash, the hero is intrinsically reactive. The villain starts making trouble and that's the...
"As someone who's been obsessed with vampires since I was a little kid, I don't totally know [why we love vampire movies so much]. Obviously...
"I would argue that the movies, the plays, the stories that endure and certainly that resonate in the most populist and global way are the o...
On today's episode of the Write On podcast, we speak with RaMell Ross about his new film Nickel Boys about two young Black men who get sent...
"You're reading these interviews [in the book The Bikeriders by Danny Lyon] and they're all interesting, but Kathy's are just fascinating. Y...
"I find action scenes really hard to write, I usually save them for the end. I need to get very caffeinated and then just try and get into t...
"About 12 years ago, I had my very first meeting to staff. It was a show being run by a playwright named Beau Willimon, and he'd done one se...
"We never wanted to make a show about dogs. We wanted to make a show about people. And then secondary to that, people who love dogs. We made...
"What I wanted to do with this movie was take this interesting relationship that I have been exploring over the course of my writing, over 2...
"One of the things that I really wanted to focus on, and I felt it immediately after meeting Lina the housewife in Indiana [played by Betty...
"The streaming bubble finally popped, and I think the tip of the spear that popped it was the double strikes we had last year and now we're...
"I think [Here] has some of the imagination of Forrest Gump, but it's not Forrest Gump. It's a different animal. I mean, it has the same kin...
"Comedy and scares are so similar. I've found that in a lot of my scripts, it's almost like you're taking the peaks and valleys of humor, an...
"We wanted the whole series, but specifically the pilot episode, to lure you in with the kind of comfort and coziness of the 80s nostalgia a...
"Sometimes I think [the show Pachinko ] is almost too personal. I feel like every show, you look at it and say, 'How much of myself is in th...
"I think what Tim [Burton] does is he's always trying to simplify. That's the essence of a classic filmmaker. People think he's wild and cra...
"I think that Sunny [the robot], as a character, is kind of emblematic of this conundrum we have with A.I. In one scene she is cute and warm...