Allison Anders
 
Nicholl Fellowship winner and writer/director of Border Radio, Things Behind the Sun, and Gas, Food Lodging...
 
Jane Anderson
 
Writer of It Could Happen to You, The Prize Fighter of Defiance, Ohio, and How to Make an American Quilt...
 
Doug Atchison
 
Nicholl Fellowship winner and writer/director of Akeelah and the Bee, The Pornographer, and Ellen's Father...
 
John August
 
Writer of Charlie's Angels, Big Fish, Go, Corpse Bride, Titan A.E., and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...
 
Shane Black
 
Writer of Lethal Weapon, The Last Boy Scout, The Long Kiss Goodnight, and writer/director of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang...
 
John D. Brancato
 
Writer of Catwoman, The Game, The Net, Primeval, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, and Terminator: Salvation...
 
John Carpenter
 
Writer/director of Assault on Precinct 13, The Fog, Ghosts of Mars, Escape From New York, and Halloween...
 
Larry Cohen
 
Writer of Captivity, Cellular, Phone Booth, Q, Connected, The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover and It's Alive...
 
Frank Darabont
 
Three-time Academy Award nominee and writer/director of The Green Mile, The Mist, and The Shawshank Redemption...
 
Steven E. de Souza
 
Writer of Die Hard, 48 Hrs., Commando, Street Fighter, Judge Dread, The Running Man, and Tomb Raider 2...
 
Gerald Di Pego
 
Writer of The Forgotten, Angel Eyes, Instinct, Message in a Bottle, Phenomenon, and Sharky's Machine...
 
Mark Fergus
 
Academy Award Nominee and writer of Iron Man, First Snow, Consequence, Children of Men and Cowboys & Aliens...
 
Antwone Fisher
 
Writer of Antwone Fisher and ATL and writer/director of My Summer Friend. Also a poet and author of Finding Fish...
 
Naomi Foner
 
Golden Globe Winner and writer of Running on Empty, Bee Season, A Dangerous Woman, and Violets are Blue...
 
Joe Forte
 
Writer of Firewall and Out and writer/producer of Say I Do...
 
Josh Friedman
 
Writer of The Black Dahlia, Chain Reaction, War of the Worlds, and Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles...
 
Mick Garris
 
Writer of Riding the Bullet, Quicksilver Highway, The Stand, The Fly II, and Creator of Masters of Horror...
 
William Goldman
 
Academy Award Winner, writer of All the President's Men, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and The Princess Bride...
 
David Hayter
 
Writer of Watchmen, The Scorpion King, X-Men, and X2: X-Men United...
 
Peter Hyams
 
Writer of The Hunter and Telefon and writer/director of Capricorn One, The Star Chamber, and 2010...
 
Michael January
 
Writer of Neowolf, Warpath, Hostile Force, and Deadly Target...
 
STEVE KOREN & MARK O'KEEFE
 
Writing team behind Click and Bruce Almighty...
 
Jonathan Lemkin
 
Writer of The Devil's Advocate, Lethal Weapon 4, Red Planet, and Shooter...
 
Andrew W. Marlowe
 
Nicholl Fellowship winner and Writer of Air Force One, End of Days, and Hollow Man...
 
Dennis Palumbo
 
Writer of My Favorite Year, Story Editor of Welcome Back, Kotter, and Author of Writing from the Inside Out...
 
Zak Penn
 
Writer of Behind Enemy Lines, The Incredible Hulk, Last Action Hero, The Grand and X-Men: The Last Stand...
 
Daniel Pyne*
 
Writer of Fracture, Pacific Heights, The Sum of All Fears, Where's Marlowe? and The Manchurian Candidate...
 
Billy Ray
 
Writer of Flightplan, Hart's War, Volcano, State of Play and writer/director of Breach and Shattered Glass...
 
Adam Rifkin
 
Writer of Mousehunt, Underdog and Writer/Director of The Dark Backward and National Lampoon's Homo Erectus...
 
Jose Rivera
 
Academy Award Nominated writer of The Motorcycle Diaries and writer of Trade and Letters to Juliet...
 
Mark Rosenthal
 
Writer of The Jewel of the Nile, The Legend of Billie Jean, Mona Lisa Smile, Planet of the Apes, and Flicka...
 
Ari B. Rubin
 
Writer of projects in development at United Artists, including Mob Cops and The Magician...
 
Bruce Joel Rubin
 
Academy Award Winner of Ghost, Writer of My Life, Brainstorm, Deep Impact, Jacob's Ladder, and The Time Traveler's Wife
 
Richard Rush
 
Two-Time Academy Award Nominee and writer of The Stunt Man and Air America and director of Psyche Out...
 
Paul Schrader
 
Writer of Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Affliction, American Gigolo, The Yakuza, and The Last Temptation of Christ...
 
Melville Shavelson
 
Academy Award Nominee for Houseboat and The Seven Little Foys, writer/director of Cast a Giant Shadow...
 
Ron Shelton
 
Academy Award Nominee for Bull Durham and writer of Tin Cup, White Men Can't Jump, Bad Boys II and Under Fire...
 
Ronald Shusett
 
Co-Creator of The Alien franchise, executive producer of Minority Report, writer of Total Recall...
 
Joe Stillman*
 
Academy Award Nominee for Shrek, writer of Shrek 2, Planet 51, and Beavis and Butt-Head Do America...
 
Stephen Susco
 
Writer of The Grudge, The Grudge II, and Red...
 
Duncan Tucker*
 
Writer/Director of Transamerica...
 
Guinevere Turner
 
Writer of American Psycho, Bloodrayne, Go Fish, and The Notorious Bettie Page...
 
Kriss Turner
 
Writer of Something New and writer/producer on Cosby, The Bernie Mac Show, and Everybody Hates Chris...
 
Linda Voorhees*
 
UCLA Screenwriting Professor and writer/director of Out of Omaha, Raising Genius, and California Dreaming...
 
Richard Walter*
 
Chairman of the the UCLA Screenwriting Department and Author of The Whole Picture...
 
David S. Ward
 
Academy Award Winner for The Sting, writer of Cannery Row, Major League, Flyboys and Sleepless in Seattle...
 
Richard Wenk*
 
Executive Producer of The Girl Next Door, writer/director of Just the Ticket and Vamp and writer of 16 Blocks...
 
James L. White
 
BAFTA Nominee and writer of Ray...
 
Michael Wolk
 
Author of The Beast on Broadway, writer/director of Deep Six, writer of Innocent Blood...
 
Kris Young
 
UCLA Screenwriting Professor, Chair of WGA's Asian-American Writers' Committee, writer of Teen Angel,Exile to Babylon...
 
Justin Zackham
 
Writer/Director of Going Greek and writer of The Bucket List and Lights Out...
 

ADDITIONAL INTERVIEWS

  • Mike Binder (Writer/Director, "Reign Over Me")*
  • David Dobkin (Director, "Wedding Crashers")*
  • Nora Ephron (Oscar Nominee, "When Harry Met Sally...")*
  • Robert Mark Kamen ("The Karate Kid")*
  • Paul Mazursky (Oscar Nominee, "An Unmarried Woman")*
  • Plus, Greg Beal (Administrator, Nicholl Fellowships) and Katherine O'Brien (Filmmaker/Story Analyst)*
* An asterisk represents participants that appear in the book only.
 
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