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Screenwriting Quote of the Day #16: From Producer Steven P. Wegner

“I look for writers I bond with — writers I can trust. I’m selective, but if it works, I work with the writer over and over again.”

Steven P. Wegner
Producer of The Blind Side, The Book of Eli

Screenwriting Quote of the Day #15: From Director Robert Katz

“The execution is more important than the idea, meaning, I can’t save a writer with a good idea that’s gone wrong. I’d rather work with someone who needs help with ideas, but knows the craft.”

Robert Katz
Producer / Director of Gettysburg, Selena

Screenwriting Quote of the Day #14: From Author Chuck Palahniuk

“I believe in dangerous writing…Unless you’re writing about something that scares you, you’re wasting your time.”

Chuck Palahniuk
Fight Club, Choke

Screenwriting Quote of the Day #13: From Christopher Nolan


“If you’re trying to challenge an audience and make them look at elements in a different way, you’ve got to give them a familiar context to hang onto. But you have to be very aware that the audience is extremely ruthless in its demand for newness, novelty and freshness.”

Christopher Nolan
Inception, The Dark Knight, Memento

ScreenwritingU Top Screenwriters Get Special Promotion on InkTip

For graduates of our top online screenwriting class, this is great news…

InkTip will offer ScreenwritingU’s ProSeries graduates special placement of their loglines and synopses on the website’s Executive Index and InkTip Magazine that goes out to 30,000 producers – print and online.

The ProSeries Alumni is ScreenwritingU’s elite screenwriting group where over 130 screenwriters have either sold or optioned their scripts, landed paid writing assignments from producers, and/or secured agents or managers

See the entire story on Yahoo News.

Screenwriting Quote of the Day#12: From Producer Mark Castaldo

“Every day, wake up, and do something to move your career forward. You can write, call someone, approach people, whatever — just do something.”

Mark Castaldo
Producer; My Run, The Perfect Tenant

Screenwriting Quote of the Day #11: From Producer Jon Gunn

“Make your decisions strong decisions, bold decisions. If you think it is enough, double it. Get there in an unexpected way. Do things that make your story stand out.”

Jon Gunn
Producer; My Date With Drew, Mercy Streets

Screenwriting Quote of the Day #10: From Director Harry Winer

“There are two paths to writing a great movie — a unique point of view, one that can only come from you and the life you’ve lived…or your craft; creating great popcorn movies that can still touch us.”

Harry Winer
Director / Producer / Writer at Smash Media; SpaceCamp, House Arrest, Lucky 7

Screenwriting Quote of the Day #9: From Creative Exec. Carrie Gillogly

“Readability is the key quality I look for in a screenplay. It’s what will enable me to fall in love with it and its something writers often overlook. Your scripts might become movies and once they are movies no one will care about the degree of readability, but how readable it is, how much fun to read, is what will get you noticed as a writer, what will make people want to read the whole script.”

Carrie Gillogly
Creative Executive at Gerber Pictures; Gran Torino

Screenwriting Quote of the Day #8: From Writer Cooper Layne

“Every producer is praying for a great screenplay to come across their desk. You just need to be that script. Easy, huh? Oh and while you’re at it… make an impression – and make it good, timely and smart. A good script will always find it’s way.”

Cooper Layne
Producer/Writer of The Core, The Emperor’s Club