Based on hundreds of interviews with directors such as Coppola, Scorsese, Hopper and Spielberg, as well as producers, stars, studio executives, writers, spouses, ex-spouses, and girlfriends, this is the story of the crazy world that the directors ruled.

Tells how to create a story idea, use the correct screenplay format, develop plot, portray characters, write realistic dialogue, handle writer's block, and submit a manuscript.

Subtitled Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting. Author is a screenwriting guru who gives sell-out courses throughout the UK and Europe.

Presents six books in one. They present screenwriting basics, the writing process, a formatting guide, a spec writing guide, a sales and marketing guide, and a resource guide. This title includes sample query letters, worksheets and checklists, examples, sample scenes, and explanations of screenwriting fundamentals.

An explosive expose of the men who changed independent cinema for ever in the 1990s

Her name is Orfamay Quest and she's come all the way from Manhattan, Kansas, to find her missing brother Orrin. Or least ways that's what she tells PI Philip Marlowe, offering him a measly twenty bucks for the privilege. But Marlowe's feeling charitable though it's not long before he wishes he wasn't so sweet.