When I decided to make my latest film, The Seen (2016), I took a series of unusual approaches. The first was my strategy of choosing a location and writing a story around it as opposed to vice versa. I had…
Now is the perfect time to achieve your creative goals, like writing the screenplay for that thriller in your head that’s better than anything you’ve binge-watched lately, or building a story bible for that book you’re aiming to adapt into…
The act of writing is often seen as a mere hobby or, when pursued as a professional career, as a not-very-serious-option. Due to its nature, it brings doubt and struggle to every single creative stage: from conceiving a viable idea…
I.A.L. Diamond was Billy Wilder’s second great co-writer. After Charles Brackett, with whom Wilder had co-written The Lost Weekend and Sunset Boulevard, Wilder formed another superb screenwriting partnership with Diamond that produced classics such as Some Like It…