"A little talent to a writer means as much as a little talent to a brain surgeon."
- Dave Hirsh. Hard drinking, passionate misanthrope. Sometime writer.
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Principles
It all started with, "I could write a movie that bad." Turns out, even that's hard. So...
- Appreciate what's admirable.
- Identify what's slack; examine why.
- Think fast and publish quickly because writing stories, not blogging, is the real deal.
Affirmations (or "Get off your ass!")
Luck is opportunity plus preparation plus luck. - Jane Espenson ~~ Don't let better be the enemy of good. - John August ~~ The business must eat stories. Don't wait. - Eric Jacobson ~~ The screenplay is a container for money. - John David Roberts ~~ Things are OK when the things you complain about are the things you used to dream about. - Aaron Sorkin
About Me
- John David Roberts
- I'm an experienced learning and OD professional, who's onto the what's new in learning, and in my few hours of spare time I write screenplays.
Seen and Read, 2007 (Screenwriter)
- Jimmy the Gent (Bertram Milhauser)
- To Be or Not to Be (Edwin Justus Mayer)
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1962, Robert Bloch)
- Notorious (Ben Hecht)
- The Treasure of Sierra Madre (John Huston)
- Down in the Valley (David Jacobson)
- Daddy Long Legs (Henry Ephron, Phoebe Ephron, Jean Webster)
- The Bells of St Mary's (Leo McCarey, Dudley Nichols)
- The Bishop's Wife (Leonardo Bercovici, Charles Brackett, Robert E Sherwood, Billy Wilder)
- Atonement (Christopher Hampton)
- Breach (Adam Mazer, Wm. Rotko, Billy Ray)
- Charlie Wilson's War (Aaron Sorkin)
- Enchanted (Bill Kelly)
- Disturbia (Christopher B Landon, Carl Elsworth)
- Because I Said So (Karen Leigh Hopkins, Jessie Nelson)
- Freaks (Clarence Aaron Robbins)
- Hollywoodland (Peter Bernbaum)
- My Super Ex-Girlfriend (Don Payne)
- The Bourne Ultimatum (Tony Gilroy, Scott Z. Burns, George Nofli)
- Sicko (Michael Moore)
- Knocked Up (Judd Apatow)
- The Island (Caspian Tredwell-Owen, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman)
- The Princess Bride (William Goldman)
- The Wizard of Oz (Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allen Woolf)
- Ocean's Thirteen (Brian Koppelman, David Levien)
- Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch)
- Live Free or Die Hard (Mark Bomback)
- Local Hero (Bill Forsyth)
- Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg)
- Shrek the Third (Andrew Adamson, Howard Gould, Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman, J. David Stern, David N. Weiss, Jon Zack)
- One Crazy Summer (Savage Steve Holland)
- Severance (James Moran, Christopher Smith)
- The Science of Sleep (Michel Gondry)
- Spider Man 3 (Sam and Ivan Raimi, Alvin Sargent)
- The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
- Jesus Camp (Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, dirs.)
- The Holiday (Nancy Meyers)
- Stranger than Fiction (Zach Helm)
- On Broadway (Dave McLaughlin)
- The Pursuit of Happyness (Steve Conrad)
- The Namesake (Sooni Taraporevala)
- The Last King of Scotland (Jeremy Brock, Peter Morgan)
- The Devil Wears Prada (Aline Brosh McKenna)
- The Knack...and How to Get It (Charles Wood)
- Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham, Dan Mazer)
- The Departed ( William Monahan)
- Zodiac (James Vanderbilt)
- Children of Men (Alfonson Cuaron, Timothy Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, Hawk Otsby)
- The Chronicles of Narnia (Ann Peacock, Andrew Adamson, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely)
- The Incredibles (Brad Bird)
- The Goonies (Chris Columbus)
- Letters from Iwo Jima (Iris Yamashita)
- Flags of Our Fathers (Wm. Broyles Jr., Paul Haggis)
- Night at the Museum (Ben Garant, Thomas Lennon)
- Notes on a Scandal (Patrick Marber)
- Man on Fire (Brian Helgeland)
- Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
- The Painted Veil (Ron Nyswaner)
- Babel (Guillermo Arriaga)
- Blood Diamond (Charles Leavitt)
- The Queen (Peter Morgan)
Screenwriting Bloggers
Blog Archive
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- And another thing to blame on the brain
- Yes, they're telling you how you feel
- The Constant Gardener
- Biting and quoting, from 'Some Came Running'
- Inflation, Two Much, and Just Because They Are Tha...
- Brokeback Mountain
- The Machinist
- Walk the Line
- That's why they call him Fun
- Neanderthal TV: Kick Ass, Take Names, and Suffer
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