“Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people just don’t shoot their husbands, they just don’t.” – Elle Woods (Legally Blonde, 2001) With a quote like that, Elle kinda makes you want to exercise, no? After the excess of the holiday season, I bet a lot of us are thinking about exercise this […]
Diving Into The Three Wells at Tea & Ink Writing Club
I was requested to mentor again at the Tea & Ink Writing Club and happily agreed. To do something a little different, this time I brought Matthew Kalil’s book “The Three Wells of Screenwriting” (a wonderful new MWP book on my bookshelf). It’s a book to get the inspiration juices flowing. From the book, I […]
Inspiration at the Movies: Earth: One Amazing Day
This past weekend, I went to the closing night of the R2R Family Film Festival. It’s great to see family-friendly films from around the world on the big screen… but I digress. Sometimes in a movie there’s a line that really rings true and you know you’re going to remember it for, well, probably for […]
Inspiration at the Movies: Time Bandits
“Your Money or Your Life!” – Game Show Host (Time Bandits, 1981) What a shocking and horrible game show to play for your money or your mortality! It’s so absurd don’t you wonder who would dream up such nonsense and what kind of people would watch that kind of nonsense and be entertained? Yet the […]
Magic Movie Moment: The Heat
Ashburn and Mullins wrestle and compete to be the first one in the door of the tenement building before their interview with Tatiana. Basically the scene is an establishing shot of the building and of the two lead characters going in. Gosh, filming establishing shots with lead characters entering buildings can be soooo boring: plop […]
Black Friday Christmas Gift Ideas for Teenage (or New) Filmmakers
Black Friday always makes me think about black production t-shirts (which I love!), and new filmmakers need all kinds of stuff to make their movies, especially teens without paying jobs. So, in the spirit of empowering black-clad filmmakers to experiment with and make better movies, here’s a gift idea list for the new filmmakers around […]
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