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Taking the red pill…
Thanks for all your emails and comments. You’ve all been really nice and overwhelmingly supportive of my decision to leave Twitter. When I say “all”, I’m obviously not including @misterdevans, whose comments on the subject have marked him out as … Continue reading
A few more thoughts…
So I’ve been gone from Twitter for an hour or so now and it is weird. Something came on the TV and I opened Tweetie, without thinking, to let people know about it. Tweetie told me my account no longer … Continue reading
Beginnings…
I decided I was going to make a film. That was what I wanted to do, I wanted to make films. I’d wanted to make films since I was about eleven years old. Go to film school? I couldn’t afford it and I didn’t really believe in it. I didn’t think I could learn anything in a classroom that I couldn’t learn better and faster by doing. I still believe that about pretty much everything (although, if you’re about to operate on me, I’d love you to have passed some exams). Continue reading
David Lynch: Fishing For Ideas…
More exposure to excellence here (it’s good for you, suck it up). Very few people understand the possibilities of cinema like David Lynch… Continue reading
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Tagged Cinema, David Lynch, Directing, Ideas, Writing
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A day in the life…
I thought it might be interesting to journal a day in the life of a writer-director (me!) during the last days of a TV edit. It turns out it wasn’t interesting at all but I’ve written it now, so you can damn well read it…
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Tagged Directing, New Tricks, Screenwriting, Writing
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The writer’s toolkit…
I’m sometimes asked my advice on what screenwriting software to use, so I thought I’d jot down a list of my faves… Continue reading
Neil Gaiman and Tori Amos – some of the best character writing around…
Been meaning to link to these for a while. Neil Gaiman wrote them to accompany two Tori Amos albums; “Strange Little Girls” and “Scarlet’s Walk”. The first is some of the best character sketches I’ve ever read. The second is … Continue reading
New Tricks – the story so far…
I realise that I have jumped into journalling my day-to-day experiences making “New Tricks” with no “backstory” whatsoever. For those who require some context, or mistakenly believe that it might somehow render this journal more interesting, here’s the story so … Continue reading