March 2016
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h 50m
English
book
Script Partners: How to Succeed at Co-Writing for Film & TV, 2nd Edition
by Matt Stevens, Claudia Johnson
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Introduction and Acknowledgments
| Cecilia (Mia Farrow): | You do believe in God, don’t you? |
| Tom (Jeff Daniels): | Meaning? |
| Cecilia: | The, the reason for everything, the, the world, the universe. |
| Tom: | Oh, I think I know what you mean: the two men who wrote The Purple Rose of Cairo, Irving Sachs and R. H. Levine. They’re writers who collaborate on films. |
—The Purple Rose of Cairo
Years ago, in the middle of co-teaching a screenwriting class at the Florida State Film School, we heard a knock on the door. We opened it.
Two frantic undergraduate students stood in the hall. “Tell us how to collaborate! We want to write a scriptx together and we don’t know how!”
“Hey,” we said, “you’re interrupting our class.”
“It’ll just take a minute!” ...
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