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Susan Bullington Katz (Author)
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Book Description

October 17, 2000 0325002959 978-0325002958

Susan Bullington Katz, in conversation with some of the top screenwriters working today, gives us an insider's look into the art, craft, and business of screenwriting - from the original screenplay to the adaptation of a literary work to documentary writing.

Conversations with Screenwriters features interviews with twenty-two award-winning screenwriters in all, from Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, writer of A Room with a View, to James L. Brooks and Mark Andrus, writers of As Good as It Gets, to Roberto Benigni, writer of Life Is Beautiful, to Anthony Minghella, writer of The English Patient and The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Tom Stoppard and Marc Norman, writers of Shakespeare in Love. These interviews address the challenges and difficulties that affect all writers, even those most successful at their craft.

Whether you are a professional or aspiring screenwriter, a director, or simply a film buff, Conversations with Screenwriters will inspire, teach, and engage you in the art of successful screenwriting.


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“With a passion for the craft of scriptwriting and detailed knowledge of her subjects' work . . . Susan has a knack for posing questions that get the answers we all want to hear.”–Allan Burns

About the Author

Susan Bullington Katz is a writer and screenwriter whose monthly interviews with screenwriters appeared for years in WRITTEN BY and earned her a 1999 Maggie Award nomination in the "Best Interview" category.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Heinemann Drama (October 17, 2000)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0325002959
  • ISBN-13: 978-0325002958
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,159,209 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book! Not just for writers, but for all!, November 7, 2000
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This is a collection of interviews with famous screenwriters, such as David Mamet, Tom Stoppard, Callie Khouri, Horton Foote, Anthony Minghella, etc. If you want to really feel as though you, yourself, have had a wonderful conversation with these infamous screenwriters, this is the book for you. Ms. Bullington Katz has an extraordinary talent for asking just the right questions and truly listening to the answers, and I have never read such compelling, engrossing interviews in any book before. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves books, writing, movies, tv, and/or just reading a terrifically well written book! I can't wait until she has another book coming out!
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Tops of its kind, December 17, 2000
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OK, I'm prejudiced. I read many of these interviews in the versions that were published in the Writers Guild of America's magazine and thought they were terrific. I called up my editor at Heinemann and told her that she should get in touch with Susan Katz and collect them into a book. My editor (who is obviously quite smart) did and it makes a swell book indeed. Katz is a screenwriter talking to screenwriters about writing; she asks questions from the perspective of an insider and gets real answers as opposed to the surfacey stuff you tend to get in shorter newspaper interviews. My favorite? Probably the slightly testy interview with Mike Leigh talking about how he used improvisational input from his cast in creating SECRETS AND LIES. (But then, I'm particularly interested in improv used for writing.) There isn't an ounce of fat in this book. Smart, useful stuff.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating Stuff, April 23, 2001
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I've always suspected that writers would be the most interesting of all functionaries in the movies, as they're the ones who think it all up in the first place, and this book proves me right. Fascinating, probing glimpses into the hearts and minds of a marvelous collection of writers. Just buy the damn thing.
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