Jeffrey Alan Schechter

I just read a fabulous article by author/filmmaker Peter Hanson.  It’s posted on The Writers Store website and it condenses down into five points some of the things he learned while interviewing screenwriters for the book he co-edited with Paul Robert Herman, Tales from the Script: 50 Hollywood Screenwriters Share Their Stories. I didn’t read one […]

  I haven’t see the movie yet, but I’m confident that it will win Best Picture.  Why?  Because the story of the making of SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE is the best story of all of nominated films. The  filmmakers cast the film with no name actors literally plucked from the slums of Mumbai, they had to figure […]

Blog reader “Twilight” asked the following question: “I must ask something here about who is the main character in Titanic. All the time I though it was Rose, because she is the character who drives the story, or? I also think I have read from others like Michael Haug that Rose is the Main Character. […]

I debated a while before posting this, however I must warn people about a very dangerous screenwriting seminar.  This is no joke, and all figures I’m about to give you are real. Out of all the graduates of the screenwriting seminar in question: 800 have died in auto accidents 90 have died of cancer 2 […]

Imagine listening to two pieces of music, both very similar but with one major difference. The first piece is the glorious final movement from Beethoven’s 9thSymphony. The second, a random re-ordering of all the same notes, played by all the same musicians, on all of the same instruments, and with each note lasting exactly as long as […]