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 showed up on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon dressed all in s...
5 Jan 45min
Write 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 other is: Why tell this story other than to make money? That wa...
30 Dec 202540min
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 great thing is that the version Francis [Lawrence, the direc...
3 Dec 202541min
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 give you this beautiful framework, and it's almost like the...
30 Okt 202535min
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 less? Can the action be tighter? Can the action sequence be ...
20 Okt 202539min
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 After the Hunt, I definitely wasn't like, 'Oh, I want to wr...
17 Okt 202537min
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 this was going to be its own kind of special beast. Working wit...
3 Okt 202535min
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 treat each character, give each character, a full life and a ful...
26 Sep 202539min
