Write On: 'The Smashing Machine' Writer/Director Benny Safdie
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...
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Write On: A Screenwriting Podcast
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...
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20 of 100 episodesWrite On: 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' Co-Writers Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver
"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...
Write On: 'The Long Walk' Screenwriter JT Mollner
"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...
Write On: 'Hedda' Writer/Director Nia DaCosta
"I love adaptations. The beauty of adaptation, especially a classic, like Shakespeare and Chekhov or Ibsen, they're such a gift because they...
Write On: 'Splinter Cell: Deathwatch' Creator/Writer Derek Kolstad
"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...
Write On: 'After the Hunt' Writer Nora Garrett
"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...
Write On: 'Anemone' Co-Writer/Director Ronan Day-Lewis
"[My dad] really started to inhabit the characters, especially Ray, speaking as him during the writing process. That was when I realized thi...
Write On: 'All Of You' Writer/Director Will Bridges & Writer/Actor Brett Goldstein
"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...
Write On: 'Mussolini: Son of the Century' Director Joe Wright
On today's episode, we speak with director Joe Wright whose new limited TV series Mussolini: Son of the Century , explores fascism through t...
Write On: 'The Toxic Avenger' Writer/Director Macon Blair
"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...
Write On: 'Sirens' Creator/Showrunner Molly Smith Metzler
"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 On: 'The Home' Director/Co-Writer James DeMonaco and Co-Writer Adam Cantor
"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...
Write On: 'Abraham's Boys' Writer/Director Natasha Kermani
"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...
Write On: 'Countdown' Creator/Writer Derek Haas
"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...
Write On: 'Apple Cider Vinegar' Creator and Showrunner Samantha Strauss
"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...
Write On: 'Matlock' Creator & Showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman
"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...
Write On: 'Running Point' Showrunner David Stassen
"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...
Write On: 'Hurry Up Tomorrow' Director/Co-Writer Trey Edward Shults
"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...
Write On: 'Nonnas' Screenwriter Liz Maccie and Director Stephen Chbosky
"Sometimes it's easier to find and access your truth through 'pretend' characters. So I had this embarrassment of riches of this true story...
Write On: 'Shadow Force' Director/Co-Writer Joe Carnahan and Co-Writer Leon Chills
"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...