Archive for September, 2012

September 20, 2012

Script: Dr. Strangelove

Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb was written by Stanley Kubrick, Peter George, and Terry Southern based on novel Red Alert by Peter George.

September 20, 2012

Quote of the Day: William Faulkner

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.

September 19, 2012

Script: Pirates of the Caribbean

In honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day, here is Pirates of the Caribbean, written by Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio.

September 19, 2012

Script: Network

Network was written by Paddy Chayefsky.

This addition rounds out the top ten scripts on the WGA’s list of the 101 Greatest Screenplays Ever Written.

September 19, 2012

Quote of the Day: Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

September 18, 2012

Script: Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver was written by Paul Schrader.

September 18, 2012

Quote of the Day: Andy Warhol

People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it’s the way things happen to you in life that’s unreal.

September 17, 2012

Script: Dogma

Dogma was written by Kevin Smith.

September 17, 2012

Quote of the Day: Orson Welles

I rather think the cinema will die. Look at the energy being exerted to revive it — yesterday it was color, today three dimensions. I don’t give it forty years more.

September 14, 2012

Script: Maverick

Maverick was written by William Goldman.