Father, Luke, I'm your father. Less description, less noise, the more you put out there, the less opportunity there is for the audience to engage. I remember the coach told me something of what it was like to be teaching, which I think relates to all educators across all disciplines, Half the job is showing the way, the other half is getting out of the way. We have to get out the way of our artists and let them discover themselves and find themselves and thats how we will find them. Well, you know again I like to say you should see the movies rather than read the screenplays when you read the screenplays, you're often looking at shooting scripts that have angles and that they're not appropriate. He wrote among other pictures, Casablanca and I said to all Mr. Gibson Wow. But if you if, if it were in New York, and they say, yeah, that's not you know, what they've done on my monitor, they threw her on the train and nobody's trying to convince you. That's what they're there in entitled to write. A these are really really wonderful, wonderful films. And he said, Oh, that's interesting. days de la UCLA, but keep going. So suddenly, there I am, you know, heartland really brand new, not yet full out, even out of film school completely. With true insight, a master teacher of screenwriting pinpoints the story structure reasons most new spec scripts don't sell; then uses scores of examples from popular hit movies to present, step by step, his revolutionary Hero Goal Thats the joy in writing, if there is joy in it. It's part of the state interest in New York campus. I might not sell the book and I might not sell the screenplay, but thats my strategy. Right-click here to download the MP3 The line she was supposed to deliver with rage, instead she delivered all up and peppy and perky and very good girl. Because. This was in 1977 so sometime ago. Its three words Prince of Denmark. And that's unusual that and that something like 94 or five or 6% of published books do not earn out their advance this one did it on the first printing. Many will tell you the downside of writing for the screen is that so many people come between you and the final work, the movie, you are creating. So there's Marcia Griffin, George Lucas, Kevin a Chanel. So when 10 weeks do the math. absolutely, it would be like telling the punchline to a joke. And it was the first movie that he's gonna direct he had written some very successful movies. My favorite movie my spike is actually x i think it's it's the the Malcolm biopic. Harper College is just the undergraduate wing of the Binghamton University. It's everywhere. Writers came from all over the People's Republic to hear me for a week and she on the ancient central central capital. Exactly right the I've you heard me say, and I've said it throughout my career. You just have to make them feel good out screenwriters. Yes, there are some productions like that going on in Atlanta and other Vancouver things. Right, right, right. now What advice would you give a screenwriter trying to break in the business today? Oh, yes, of course. The lesson binds more easily that way rather than if it were presented as an abstraction. Do you know what the groceries were last weekend and so on, and one of them and stay apprised of the trades? You know, the same way Claude Rains education can hear his barking and griping about his movie what movie Casablanca and all I could think of myself as well. And I can say the rule in three words, right? Likewise, it I used to think it was about there's a line of time you know, about an hour and 40 minutes most movies are too long. If you're fortunate enough to win a seat in his legendary screenwriting class at UCLA film school, your writing career has just taken a quantum leap in the direction of success. And now you pick up the ball and what's there there's a circle indicating exactly where it landed. What kind of a treepeople go on about what a character is like. Dont be a control freak. Somebody said to me the other day, I gave the agent. In life we kill time; in movies time kills us. I kind of think of I like to talk about Michelangelo, sculpting the famous statue of David that Stan, Florence, right. I'm looking at the snow capped mountains across the valley. Remember, integrate all rules are off of its integration. This blockbuster ebook bundle includes: SCREENPLAY: FOUNDATIONS OF SCREENWRITING THE SCREENWRITERS WORKBOOK THE SCREENWRITERS PROBLEM SOLVER Syd Field was the most sought-after screenwriting teacher in the world according to The Hollywood Reporter. But it's not likely ever to get right to that spot. And I'll say, what's more important to you, your heart or your lungs? I've noticed that, you know, you hear these mythical stories of like, let's say, you know, when Shane Black was selling a house was selling those scripts in the in the glory. And I even know writers who would mask their addresses. And then in 1988, they were in Korea, they were in Seoul. It's a hugely diverse communities are shifting I grew up in and, and the only thing I don't like about LA is the relentless good weather. Here it is, don't be boring. We are the proud grandparents for the first time of an 8 month old. There is not one thing in all of that vastness. And suddenly it dawned on me I had actually one of the single greatest insights that I've ever had in my life, in the midst of struggling to figure out what movies when the 90s what was best movie in the 90s it occurred to me that in this entire universe. I mean, When somebody comes up to you a stranger comes up to you and says, excuse me, excuse me, I writer. Richard Walter, the brother of Jessica Walter of Arrested Development is a brilliant professor of the craft called screenwriting. Now? And you throw it from the edge of that field just as far as you possibly can. So I've always heard about you through my other guests and then when I did research on you like I gotta get Richard on the show and we just one thing led to another my schedule your schedule technology, but we're here now and we are. Oh, pretty good. Is that it? The richest character in all of English language, arguably, world dramatic literature is Hamlet, arguably, I mean, you know, certainly he's way up that they were volun libraries full of volumes, analyzing junk, us his character, and, you know, in detail, just that one aspect of the play his character, Is he mad? cop buddy action melodramas, like Beverly Hills Cop. With a screenplay youre stuck with sight and sound. And if you can't see that, then then it needs attention. He was a UCLA student before my time. And now you can't do it at all? Richard Walter shares lessons from new book ESSENTIALS OF SCREENWRITING: The Art, Craft and Business of Film and Television Writing at a 6:30p workshop, followed by wine-and-cheese reception at 7:30p at The Writers Store in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 30, 2010. Three years later, my wife and I, and all this I'm sorry, that was 66. So you know, in terms of protein, and and, you know, vitamins and minerals. Yes, exactly. In screenwriting, UCLA was number one, not according to me itself suffering of me to say that, sure. He says that there was this big block of marble that his workmen brought down from his favorite quarry in Carrara. If I hit the little down arrow, if I say want to send the message to my doctor, then it'll say witch doctor and you hit the down arrow. Worse than that, though, is public school. 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