
Adventures in the Screen Trade

The movie producer and all-around mensch Stuart Cornfeld once told me that in a good screenplay, every structural unit needs to do two things: (1) be entertaining in its own right and (2) advance the story in a non-trivial way.
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: From the Man Booker Prize-winning, New York Times-bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo
Rules of Production: 1. Safety to people 2. Safety to property 3. Make a good film!
Jeffrey W. Sass • Everything I Know about Business and Marketing, I Learned from THE TOXIC AVENGER: (One Man's Journey to Hell's Kitchen and Back)
irony, promise of more, audience and cost (four-quadrant, with special effects, not stars), and one that definitely said what it is.
Blake Snyder • Save the Cat
When shooting ended this afternoon, it wasn’t the end of the working day for me. I spent another hour and a half in the post-synching theatre linking my voice to the picture on the screen. When shooting on location, the sound recording quality is often poor, through no fault of the sound crew, but because background noises sometimes dominate instea
... See moreSir Roger Moore KBE • The 007 Diaries: Filming Live and Let Die
