“The fact is, when I wrote Juno—and I think this is part of its charm and appeal—I didn’t know how to write a movie.”
Diablo Cody
“To this day, I get rewrite offers where they say: ‘We feel this script needs work with character, dialogue, plot and tone,’ and when you ask what’s left, they say: ‘Well, the typing is very good.’”
Writer/Director John Sayles
“You can trust a Neil Simon script. Every dot. Every dash; that pause means something. He takes all the jokes out, practically.”
Hector Elizondo
The Professor of Micropopularity: James Schamus, Columbia University Professor of Plato and C.E.O. of Focus Features
Writer Robert Heinlein and his wife on the set of the 1950 movie Destination Moon. (Click photo to read an article on Heinlein’s influence on how the public imagines space)
(photo credit: Heinlein Society)
