First Draft

First Draft: 14 Screenwriting Books Every Screenwriter Should Read

Published by
Ken Miyamoto

Screenwriters on Screenwriting (Joel Engel)

It’s one thing to learn from a single point of view—be it a screenwriting guru, professor, instructor, or award-winning screenwriter. This book offers screenwriters the chance to learn from many of the industry’s biggest and most successful Hollywood screenwriters.

Screenwriters interviewed include: Bruce Joel Rubin (Ghost), Ernest Lehman (North by Northwest, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Amy Holden Jones (Indecent Proposal), Ted Tally (The Silence of the Lambs), Horton Foote (To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies), Andrew Bergman (Blazing Saddles), Caroline Thompson (Edward Scissorhands), Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King), and Robert Towne (Chinatown, Shampoo).

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Ken Miyamoto

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