Author (The Protagonist's Journey), Screenwriter (K-9, Alaska), Associate Professor (DePaul University film school), Host (GoIntoTheStory.com)
Joined March 2009
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21 Jul 2018
More than EVER, we need good storytellers. Put a human face on The Other. Shed light on a Deeper Truth. Engender Empathy. Fan the flames of Hope. Motivate people to Act. Make us Laugh. Make us Cry. Make us Thrilled. Make us Think. But mostly, make us feel our Shared Humanity.
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Page One: "Warcraft" (2016), written by Charles Leavitt and Duncan Jones
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A trillionair, yet his name does not appear on a single school, university, library, museum wing, hospital, stadium, arena, airport, or endowed chairs. What a colossal waste of a human lifetime.
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Tony McNamara: โWith TV, youโve got 10 hours and can make more mistakes and get away with them. But with a screenplay, youโve got to find the heart and the simplicity of it thatโll give you the complexity. Thatโs a beautiful challenge.โ #screenwriting
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William Trevor: โThe great challenge in writing is always to find the universal in the local.โ #writing
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Where it all began: my first pitch for @TheBoysTV eleven years ago. Since then, hundreds of actors, thousands of crew, and millions of viewers embraced this insane idea. I'm grateful beyond words, and proud that all these years later, we stayed true to this mission statement. #FYC #TheBoys @PrimeVideo
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Jun 13
Thank goodness for Birthright citizenship
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Every year for the last three years, I have been asked to deliver the invocation at the our college's graduation ceremony at DePaul University. Here is what I said this morning at today's event. patreon.com/GoIntoTheStory/pโฆ #inspiration
ALT "Love is inventive to infinity.
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Neil LaBute: "When you look at the stories Iโve written, the situations are already ripe for trouble. Itโs in the air. Itโs electric enough that you donโt need to turn on the gas to make fire." medium.com/go-into-the-storyโฆ #screenwriting #writing
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Jun 13
Page One: "Upstream Color" (2013), written by Shane Carruth
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Jun 13
I love this place. And I think you should, too.
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Larry McMurtry: "What's needed in screenwork is imagination, an agile mind, and a facility for on-the-spot invention. Also tolerance, a sense of humor, and a willingness to compromise." #screenwriting
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William Trevor: "By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else." #writing
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Jun 12
Call me a hater but I think living in a world where both trillionaires and global poverty coexist is a sign humanity has failed as a species
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Scott Myers retweeted
Jun 12
fucking incredible quote from Cregger, a writer i admire:
"having your brain sucked into your phone for hours a day is *robbing you of the boredom* that is crucial to having ideas."
BRING ๐ BACK ๐ BOREDOM ๐
The below clip actually comes from a very charming Q&A Zach Cregger gave to a class of high school students. Here is his great follow-up answer to what to do if Elfing isnโt working for you
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Go Into The Story Interview: My conversation with Donald Margulies who wrote the screenplay adaptation The End of the Tour which made the Black List in 2013 and was produced in 2015 starring Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel. medium.com/go-into-the-storyโฆ #movies #screenwriting
ALT Donald Margulies
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Jun 11
Rich kids being able to do art for a living may be a reflection of their privilege but it seems to me like a reflection of the fact that a human that doesn't have to worry about money will often choose art. everyone is an artist until rent is due. i wish we all had that right
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Scott Myers retweeted
Jun 12
New pod: Cut the BS, letโs discuss who gets paid what on a massive indie hit like Obsession. With producer/professor @mynette Louie. Listen! Watch! open.spotify.com/episode/0Zhโฆ
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Chris McCoy: โThe advantage to what we do is that we are not actors. We donโt have to wait around for someone to hand us material that inspires something within us. We can sit down and write the kind of movie we want to see." #screenwriting
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