MakingOf has an interview up with me in which I talk a bit about my writing process, the challenge of adaptations, and why one’s career is often as much about the scripts you didn’t write.
Video
Leftover questions
Some readers had questions they didn’t get to ask on the call-in show last night, so I answered them this morning.
Unanswered Questions from John August on Vimeo.
Video from Rancho Mirage Q&A
Synthian Sharp, one of the nicest folks I met during the strike, took it upon himself to tape my Q&A in Rancho Mirage. He now has it online at Vimeo, where you can also download a much beefier 934MB version.
This talk was very much geared towards a general audience. While there were some film students, most of the crowd was over fifty. We spoke more about the career than the craft of screenwriting.
I showed five clips. Weirdly, I didn’t pick one from The Nines, but I did show one scene from Scott Frank’s Minority Report that had my fingerprints on it.
At 112 minutes, it’s quite a time commitment. If you’re skipping around in the video, here’s the rough order of what I talk about:
- How I got started
- Go
- DC
- Charlie’s Angels
- Minority Report
- Big Fish
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- God (the short film on The Nines DVD)
- The Nines
- Audience questions
Thanks to The Friends of the Rancho Mirage Public Library, Palm Springs International Film Society, and moderator Deborah Dearth. And of course Synthian for putting this up.
Inspiration, creativity and showing up
Terrific talk by Elizabeth Gilbert from the TED series. Nineteen minutes well spent.
Thanks to Rawson for the link.