The Insider's Guide to Writing for Screen and Television

by Tobias, Ronald B.

• ISBN13: 9780898797176
• ISBN10: 0898797179
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-03-01
• Publisher: Writers Digest Books

Summary

Industry insider Ronald B. Tobias reveals the creative, political and financial truths of writing for film and television. In candid, instructive interviews, he takes you behind the screens to show you how directors, actors and others look at a script. Learn from John McTiernan, Director of Die Hard and Hunt for Red October; Stephen Soderbergh, Writer and director of Sex, Lies and Videotape; Alan Arkin, Star of Glengarry Glen Ross; Charlton Heston, Star of The Ten Commandments; Patrick Markey, Producer of A River Runs Through It; Andrew Laszlo, Director of Photography of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier; Tom McGuane, Screenwriter of Missouri Breaks; and Jack Gilardi, Agent and executive vice president of International Creative Management, which represents many of Hollywood's leading talents. This book is like a screenwriting seminar you hold at home. Read it for the realities of writing for film. Then pull up to your keyboard and roll.

Table of Contents

Inside the Mind of a Hollywood Screenwriter	1	(11)
Inside the Mind of Hollywood	11	(11)
The Status of the Writer in Hollywood	22	(6)
Inside the Director	28	(22)
Inside the Actor	50	(17)
Inside the Producer	67	(7)
Inside the Director of Photography	74	(7)
Inside the Screenwriter	81	(6)
Inside the Agent	87	(15)
Inside the Hollywood Reader	102	(3)
Inside the Writer's Guild	105	(5)
Inside the Deal	110	(26)
Inside Television	136	(18)
Inside the Script	154	(12)
Inside Plot	166	(7)
Inside Character	173	(8)
Putting It All Together	181	(8)
Index	189