All posts by Lauri Donahue
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“Being In Charge Of Your Own Story”: Tony Gilroy on the Joys and Embarrassments of Being a Writer-Director
Tony Gilroy is one of the busiest and most successful screenwriters and directors working today. His first produced screenplay was The Cutting... -
Hearing What’s In Your Head: Kenneth Lonergan On His Process of Writing As a Director
Kenneth Lonergan is a playwright, screenwriter, and director best-known for his searing Oscar-winning original screenplay for Manchester by the Sea. He was... -
Advice From Austin: The 27 Best Things Screenwriters Said at the Austin Film Festival Writers Conference
To hear smart, funny, and interesting things about screenwriting—from people who know what they’re talking about—the place to be is the annual... -
Finding the Human: Dan Gilroy Talks Script Formatting and Writing Roman J. Israel, Esq. on Spec for Denzel Washington
Dan Gilroy’s newest movie, Roman J. Israel, Esq. stars Denzel Washington as a legal savant—a civil rights attorney who’s been toiling in... -
A Screenwriter’s Guide to Getting (and Keeping) an Agent: An Interview with David Boxerbaum of Paradigm
Many new screenwriters think about getting an agent as soon as—or even before—they’ve finished their first scripts. For most people, this makes... -
Bryan Cranston Goes Feral: Writer-Director Robin Swicord on Her Strange New Feature, Wakefield
What if you could disappear from your own life, but still, somehow, watch it go on without you? That’s the premise of... -
Secrets of Successful Screenwriting Teams: How to Avoid Bloodshed When Writing a Script With a Partner
Throughout history, most writers have worked alone, whether scratching away with quills in garrets or tapping on laptops at Starbucks. But many...
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Inside the Issue: Acting
Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Mads Mikkelsen
From Star Wars to Marvel, from prestige TV (Hannibal) to high-profile Oscar contenders (At Eternity’s Gate), Mads Mikkelsen can be seen stretching his dramatic skills across the board these...1Inside the Issue: Directing
The 2019 MovieMaker Sundance Survey: Eleven Sundance-Selected Films, and Their Mountain-Bound Makers
The 35th Sundance Film Festival received a record-breaking 14,000-plus submissions, with 4,000-plus feature-length films among them. Of the 112 features selected, 45 of their makers were first-timers. The fest’s...1Inside the Issue: How To
Breaking and Entering, Part One: How To Shoot Down Self-Doubt and Pay the Rent While Making It In the Film Industry
Becoming a moviemaker seemed like an impossibly ambitious goal when I was growing up. I was living in Brazil, watching bootleg copies of David Cronenberg films and, with...