The 'blind person' pacing analogy is brilliant!

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How do I download this app on my phone?

Absolutely Amazing. Thank you!

Thank you. I'm a newbie and leaned a ton.

This was extremely helpful.!

...was thinking of a different Conclave.

Great analogy about writer's block. Makes perfect sense.

So great!!!

Terrace Winter is one of the best in the business (The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, The Wolf Of Wall Street, Vinyl). Legend 💯👊🏽

That's gold. Could have listened to another hour of that. He is such a good film-maker and writer.

But how to show this line-blocks on Outline editor?

Stupid question - how do you actually create and add characters? I just want to create a cast list before writing!?

first day of the year and i cant see a movie being better than this. cried throughout. what a masterpiece

James Mangold is the greatest director that people aren’t aware of. People don’t pay attention to his name, but he’s directed some absolute gold.

Not a happy camper with this.

This is such a great interview. What an underrated show!

Why have a screenwriting podcast and not ask technical questions?

Great interview!

Haven't convinced the family to go to the theater to see Nosferatu yet... so once everyone goes back home I'll be at the theater checking out Nosferatu! Really can't wait.

The music is irritating

14:03 Improvising used in writing. + process in writing 23:54

Useless for complete starters. Doesn't show the basics like, how to get from title page to the regular script page. Something basic and critical to share...not there.

I really enjoyed this conversation. The Boys has really great writing and is visually imaginative and interesting. Thank you, I'm going to buy Lee's book, Getting It Write too!! I'm working on learning to pitch!😊👏👏👏

Loved this interview!

Can't wait to rewatch this with a note and a penpad later on, some great advice here.

Um, um,um, Effing interview. um, extreme Unti Maga um, Inglish dictionary has 100s of thousands of words but this guy keeps repeating profanity um, and so this interview is about how not to write a script; like make a movie um, now we know why MAGA and deplorable folks don't watch "Hollywood crap" um, marriage with octopus? Really? No wonder children don't know what some of their body parts are for. Hollywood died when Charlton Heston, John Wayne, and Johny Carson died, and Panty Hose Junction in northern California went out of business.

I've seen hundreds of KZbin videos on screenwriting, and this video is an absolute treasure! It's short, to the point, relevant, and, most of all, helpful.

I’ve loved writing my semi autobiographical horror dramedy television show on there over the years as there’s not enough disabled screenwriters,directors and producers.

Dumbest show on tv.

Any Given Sunday is about winning. The protagonist and antagonist want the same thing. Wall Street and a lot of big films.

Great advice! Writers block doesn't exist once you have a subject to explore. Characters have the same objectives, only one is going about acheiving their objective in the "right" way. E.g: A gang of robbers have the same goal, but along the journey the protagonist changes when he learns just how bad the antagonist is. Two men believe they have the same fiancee. She is forced to decide and breaks on of their hearts.😊

I do love writing...but now with A.I, I don't know what to do.

Good advice- everything has to be important

He’s a great teacher!

My favorite movie of 2024 - really cool to hear Jeff speak on it!

Thank you so much for that. Precious advices

Dial of Destiny is an outlier

Nice stuff. Thanks for sharing.

I think he misunderstands the power of the cinematic language, in proposing that the prose itself can encapsulate a cinematic aura. Tracking in on a character and describing the >force< which motivates that camera move is an instrument unique to cinema itself, and is something that can only be understood by the reader of the screenplay insofar as it is actually described (otherwise the screenplay is not depicting, rendering and being true to final outcome) “The filmmaking jargon gets in the way of the storytelling” as he puts it is a substantial argument, however the screenplay serves one purpose and one purpose only which is to act as a blueprint for the filmmakers (which we ought to assume are accustomed to the language of cinema, and hence that argument also falls flat. The purpose of a screenplay is to communicate the essence of cinema, not the essence of narrative literature, for that purpose we have books. Books are not cinema, and hence his argument is flawed, insofar as he views himself as a director of cinema, and not a director of literate stories. Cinema supersedes the act of literate storytelling, and hence, by omitting elements of music, sound, editing, camera, etc, cinema’s distinguishing character is dismissed and cancelled. Cinema does not equate to literate storytelling, cinema is its very own form of storytelling; time and audio moving through space, as David Lynch and Andrei Tarkovsky fashions it. In effect the purpose of the screenplay can just one thing: to serve, that is to communicate, express and entail the end product of the unique HYPERVERBAL communication form and storytelling mode that cinema is.

i like this guy

Writer’s block is real for me, but I am bipolar. So it's a very real thing for me. Whether you have faith in it or not, it does exist. A

It's so strange how different tastes are when it comes to screenplays. I find the bare bones way of both writing but especially reading a screenplay turns people off. The only people who are turned off good pros are other screenwriters with a taste of how things should be done. The people who read the scripts like some flair. If you don't believe me check out the work of Gilligan, Tarantino or Moffat. People who write scripts that people love reading and gets sold. Those can go super hard in the pros. Not that Mangold is wrong here either. Some great writers like Tony Gilroy write scripts that are extremely clinical. And they still read great. It's a taste thing. But the big thing I will say in pro pros is that those scripts will usually translate to everyone on set knowing what movie or show they are making. Regardless if they have been in all the production meetings.

Guys…guys GUYS!!! Just buy “Story” by Robert McKee and do whatever he says! You can’t go wrong!! 🫵🏻Now go write that screenplay!!👊🏻

Sounds startlingly unpretentious for a guy in his line of work. A professional writer/director, can handle any genre. The Michael Curtiz of our times.

Go James-- Thank you very very very much. The best advice I've ever heard and I've watched a ton of stuff.. Merry Christmas to you and Film Courage

The interviewer looks like Anya from mouthwashing!

The bit about pretending you're describing the movie to a blind person is mind blowingly great advice. I had to make an actual note of that one.

Darn you, Final Draft for producing such a fantastic interview while simultaneously failing at creating good software

This video is filled with gems 🔥