The Art of Screenwriting

‘My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.’ –ARTHUR SCARGILL1 The Sunday Times, 10 Jan. 1982

John August


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If you want to write, write. When you don't feel like it, write. When your eyes begin to bleed, write. When you're entirely confident that you'd rather gnaw your own arm off, write.

Websites

  • Cannes Film Festival
  • Sundance Film Festival
  • the oscars
  • Nicholl Fellowships screenwriting competition
  • Variety
  • The Writers Store
  • Master of Fine Arts in Screenwriting
  • interview with Hal Ackerman from UCLA
  • lew hunter
  • BBc writers room
  • UCLA online screenwriting programme
  • International Movie script database
  • links to more screenwriting tips, news etc
  • Screenwriting Expo in LA
  • The Dialogue Series
'Without conflict there is no action; without action there is no character; without character there is no story. And without story there is no screenplay' - Syd Field

Pages

  • Semiotics
  • Semantics
  • John August
  • Paul Haggis
  • Richard Walter
  • David Goyer
  • why one person writes
  • UCLA ONLINE SCREENWRITING
  • a touch of structure

screenplays (must reads)

  • Shawshank Redemption Script
  • The Bourne Identity Script
  • The Bourne Supremacy Script
  • The Usual Suspects Script
  • Cube Script
  • being John Malkovich Script
  • the Cell Script
  • 12 Monkeys Script
  • The Matrix Script
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden dragon Script
  • The Bourne Ultimatum Script
  • Big Fish Script
  • Avatar Script
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