Diane Drake, my teacher for an online screenwriting course I’m taking for fun and potential profit – 😉 – recommended this interview with Michael Arndt. If you don’t know who he is … it turns out very few of us know who creates the stories behind the films we watch. How sad is that? (Next time, watch the credits!)
Arndt wrote the screenplays for “Little Miss Sunshine” (for which he won a Screenwriting Oscar), “Toy Story 3” (Oscar nominated), and “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” (which grossed a mere$424,668,047 … domestically – and nearly a billion worldwide). The whole interview is inspiring, but what I particularly loved was his closing: “Just be patient. It took me ten years of writing before I finally sold my first script.”
If you’d like to watch a fabulous little video about screenwriting by Arndt, here it is.
I think I’ve recommended this next bit before, but it bears rereading: The Twenty-two rules of Screenwriting, according to Pixar – no matter what you’re writing.
See you at the movies!
