Write On: 'Only Murders In The Building' Co-Creator & Showrunner John Hoffman
"There's no greater laugh than when you're at your most vulnerable. You're at a funeral, or you're in church and something's happening and there's great reprieve from the most human moments through hu...
3 Jan 202540min
Write On: 'Dune: Part One & Part Two' Screenwriter Jon Spaihts
"In most genre fiction where heroes and villains clash, the hero is intrinsically reactive. The villain starts making trouble and that's the beginning of the story. If the villain had never showed up,...
30 Dec 202435min
Write On: 'Nosferatu' Writer/Director Robert Eggers
"As someone who's been obsessed with vampires since I was a little kid, I don't totally know [why we love vampire movies so much]. Obviously, sex and death are always interesting and in vampire storie...
27 Dec 202437min
Write On: 'Deadpool & Wolverine' Co-Writer & Director Shawn Levy
"I would argue that the movies, the plays, the stories that endure and certainly that resonate in the most populist and global way are the ones where we're not just observing a piece of storytelling, ...
18 Dec 202436min
Write On: 'Nickel Boys' Writer & Director RaMell Ross
On today's episode of the Write On podcast, we speak with RaMell Ross about his new film Nickel Boys about two young Black men who get sent to a reform school in 1960s Jim Crow South. The film is hear...
13 Dec 202430min
Write On: 'The Bikeriders' Writer & Director Jeff Nichols
"You're reading these interviews [in the book The Bikeriders by Danny Lyon] and they're all interesting, but Kathy's are just fascinating. You could just tell she was a character, meaning she was just...
11 Dec 202434min
Write On: 'The Order' Writer Zach Baylin
"I find action scenes really hard to write, I usually save them for the end. I need to get very caffeinated and then just try and get into the adrenaline of what they should feel like. With this [film...
6 Dec 202431min
Write On: TV Writing with Laura Eason
"About 12 years ago, I had my very first meeting to staff. It was a show being run by a playwright named Beau Willimon, and he'd done one season of a show that hadn't dropped yet, and they were going ...
25 Nov 202444min
