Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Quote of the Day: Aldous Huxley
Words can be like X-rays: if you use them properly they'll go through anything. You read and you're pierced.
Quote of the Day: Steven Spielberg
People have forgotten how to tell a story. Stories don't have a middle or an end any more. They usually have a beginning that never stops beginning.
Quote of the Day: Ernest Hemingway
We've posted this one before, but it bears repeating: It’s none of their business that you have to learn to write. Let them think you were born that way.
Quote of the Day: Richard Linklater
Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.
Quote of the Day: Christopher Nolan
One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself.
Quote of the Day: Woody Allen
If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job.
Quote of the Day: Orson Welles
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Quote of the Day: Roger Corman
You can make a movie about anything, as long as it has a hook to hang the advertising on.
Quote of the Day: T.S. Eliot
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far it is possible to go.