Foreword
Whenever I am asked what advice I might offer to young people who want to break into film, I always say that there are already far too many people in film and what we really need are more people in health care.
Nevertheless, each year there are those who, armed with a combination of courage, ignorance, and hope (which is a form of both ignorance and courage), reject medical school, trade their LSAT manuals in for a screen-writing program and a coffee pot, and confront the blank page.
“Here comes another one,” giggle the Muses, as they watch the poor fellow pore through his dog-eared Syd Field or Robert McKee in hopes of writing the next Casablanca or The Lady Eve. “Six weeks max,” they say, “before he starts talking to himself. Eight ...
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