Max’s Dictionary of Screenwriting Hmm Moments: “Hmmm” = A moment reading a script when a reader stops on a dime and says, WTF? A Few of Those Moments — 1. The pilot of a passenger jet liner rolls down the cockpit window. [For double credit, while flying. For triple? It’s not a passenger jet. […]
I was talking to one of my students. (You will notice this is a theme a lot around here — I talk to my students a lot.) It is about appearance. I am telling her she should go do something nice for her face. This isn’t me saying anything damaging about her face, I […]
Sometimes — When I talk to people I have this feeling they are trying to find riddles in me that are not there. I say something simple like, The sky is blue, and a day later they say, You said this thing, The sky is blue, and I have been thinking about what it […]