Top Secrets: Screenwriting - Softcover

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9780943728506: Top Secrets: Screenwriting

Synopsis

A collection of interviews with ten successful screenwriters, discussing their inspirations and motivations, and their techniques for characterization, plotting, and dialogue

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Review

Top Secrets: Screenwriting is the ideal reference work on writing for the highly competitive, and often highly lucrative, screenwriting market. Offering a blend of biographies and interviews with successful screenwriters, and actual script samples, the aspiring screenwriter can get a true feeling for what is involved and what the demands are in his or her chosen profession. Featured writers include Michael Blake (Dances With Wolves); Jim Cash (Top Gun); Mary Agnes Donoghue (Paradise); Nicholas Kazan (Reversal of Fortune); William Kelley (Witness); Todd W. Langen (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles); Bruce Joel Rubin (Ghost); Tom Schulman (Dead Poets Society); S. S. Wilson & Brent Maddock (Short Circuit); David Zucker (Naked Gun). -- Midwest Book Review

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