Director, Producer, Writer Eva Saks [evasaksmovies.com] notes in this clip, “You want to be acknowledged, you want to participate in the reward. It’s kind of unprecedented to even question whether a writer should have the right to participate.”
This video in support of the WGA strike is from a new series hosted on aworkingwriter.com, and on [...]
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Eva Saks: You want to be acknowledged
Screenwriter Nancy Oliver: “Is this what I’m supposed to be doing?”
At the 2007 Toronto Film Festival, “Lars and the Real Girl” received a standing ovation. Screenwriter Nancy Oliver was recently interviewed for the Los Angeles Times by Jeff Goldsmith, and expressed her perspectives on a number of challenges facing writers and other artists. Here is an excerpt:
When Alan Ball offered you a staff writing job [...]
Philip Pullman: write to please yourself
The movie based on his story The Golden Compass is about to open.
On his site, Philip Pullman addresses a number of questions about his life and work as a writer:
Were you encouraged to be creative?
No, I was ignored. When anyone took any notice it was to point out what a twit I was, and laugh [...]
Identifying yourself as a writer-entrepreneur
“The people who love their craft and see themselves as artists, and carry that identity through and study each day… are the people who thrive. … Successful people are able to sustain their identity as separate from their profession and what’s happening to them. That’s particularly important in the arts, where what happens to you [...]
David Thewlis on acting and writing
Actor David Thewlis‘ films include Naked (1993), the Harry Potter series, and many more. His first novel, The Late Hector Kipling, has just been published, and screenwriter William Monahan interviewed Thewlis for a BlackBook magazine article [Fiction (With a Twist of Lennon)].
William Monahan: I find that when you’re writing a character, you are that character. [...]
Doris Lessing wins Nobel Prize
“The writers I know, or whose lives I have read about, have one thing in common: a stressed childhood. I don’t mean, necessarily, an unhappy one, but children who have been forced into self-awareness early, have had to learn how to watch the grown-ups, assess them, know what they really mean, as distinct from what [...]
