Why did you decide to get into screenwriting and directing? “…because I don’t have to wear a tie to work.”
ACTION ON FILM
“In loving memory of Del Weston – Writer, Producer, Director, Action on Film founder, and Friend.”
JOHN G. AVILDEN– Director, Rocky
‘Working on a picture as a gofer or an assistant gives you a front row seat for the whole process.”
Michael Kozolt- Creator of Hill Street Blues
“I think I fundamentally consider myself a writer because I think in writing terms.”
THOMAS MURPHY- Scriptwriter
“Put a blank page in front of three people….one will draw a picture, another will make an origami bird, but a writer will tell a story…”
SPIKE LEE– Producer, Director, Writer, Actor
“I like to keep shooting because you’re learning every time.”
Jodi Binstock– Call Waiting
“As a single mom and struggling director, I was looking for a vehicle that could show my ‘chops’ and help change the landscape of my career.”
Lionel Chetwynd- Scriptwriter
“I wanted to make that film, and one of the things that does happen to you when you work the way I work is you spend three or four years working on a script, and you learn the material, and the director comes in and says, “Okay, that’s very good…”