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Would you like a cup of tea, Sandra? SANDRA Tea can do many things, Jane, but it can't bring back the dead.
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Wait a minute. You aren't seriously suggesting that if I get through the wire... and case everything out there... and don't get picked up... to turn myself in and get thrown back in the cooler for a couple of months so you can get the information you need? BARTLETT Yes. GRIFFIN MILL
OK, give me your pitch. WALTER STUCKEL 25 words or less? OK, here goes. Movie exec calls writer, writer's girlfriend tells him he's at the movies, exec goes to the movies, meets writer, drinks with writer; writer gets conked and dies in four inches of dirty water. Exec is in deep shit. What do you think? GRIFFIN MILL That was more than 25 words. Chris Jones talks to Stuart Hazeldine about being a professional writer in Hollywood. ROBERT K. BOWFINGER
Wow. Great script. Great script! THE TERMINATOR
Hasta la vista, baby. You can read all the books in the world and attend every seminar and class going. Although this would probably be a very expensive thing to do. But the simple truth is, no matter what medium you have a passion to write in. Whether you write short stories, plays, novels, screenplays or anything else out there.
When you get down to it, the only way you’ll improve as a writer and become good at writing is basically and it’s real simple. WRITE, WRITE and WRITE AND THEN REWRITE And Rewrite some more. Develop your skills, discover the genre or genres that you're passionate about, develop your own unique voice, writing style and put your own personal trademark into your writing. Don’t forget to read everything and anything, watch movies, read screenplays and put your work out there for feedback. Build up a body of work, create a website, take yourself seriously as a writer and market yourself. You might have written a thousand novels, screenplays, but if no one knows you’re a writer, how do expect to get noticed? But most importantly WRITE. JIMMY 'Popeye' DOYLE
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Someday I think you and I are going to have a serious disagreement.
There are so many others to choose from. This list would be endless. Arthur blows up a truck.
CHARLIE CROKER You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! Creating the perfect logline that sums up your story in 25-30 words or less is no mean feat. Creating a one or two sentence pitch that encapsulates your story and gets someone interested in the project is difficult to say the least.
It has to be inviting, exciting and sound interesting. If it doesn't. No one's going to read it. PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE TED STRIKER
Surely you can't be serious?! DR. RUMACK "I am serious... and don't call me Shirley.
A few others The Hangover (2009) Quick Change (1990) Bad Santa (2003) HOOPER
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