Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too!
7 best books like Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too! (Robert Ben Garant): Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting, Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need, Adventures in the Screen Trade, Realityland: True-Life Adventures at Walt Disney World, And Here's the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on their Craft and the Industry, Making Movies, On Directing Film
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
| Author | Robert McKee |
| ISBN | 0060391685 |
Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring novices, refining works in progress and putting major screenwriting careers back on track. Quincy Jones, Diane Keaton, Gloria Steinem, Julia Roberts, John Cleese and David Bowie are just a few of...
Save the Cat: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
| Author | Blake Snyder |
| ISBN | 1932907009 |
This book is often hyped as the bible of screenwriting, but I would take it a step further and call it the definitive go-to for all storytelling. Trade secrets are fully revealed and once you read them you can't watch a movie without seeing the formula scroll right in front of your eyes. Exactly--to the...
| Author | William Goldman |
| ISBN | 0446391174 |
No one knows the writer's Hollywood more intimately than William Goldman. Two-time Academy Award-winning screenwriter and the bestselling author of Marathon Man, Tinsel, Boys and Girls Together, and other novels, Goldman now takes you into Hollywood's inner sanctums...on and behind the scenes...
Realityland: True-Life Adventures at Walt Disney World
| Author | David Koenig |
| ISBN | 0964060523 |
The first in-depth, unauthorized look at the creation and operation of the world's most popular vacation destination. The author of the best-selling Mouse Tales: A Behind-the-Ears Look at Disneyland reveals how Walt Disney's City of Tomorrow evolved into a sprawling resort where?despite extraordinary...
| Author | Mike Sacks |
| ISBN | 1582975051 |
Writers who specialize in humor, who make a career out of entertaining strangers with words, are a notoriously intelligent and quirky lot. In this entertaining and inspirational book you'll hear from 21 top humor writers as they discuss the comedy writing process, their influences, their likes and...
| Author | Sidney Lumet |
| ISBN | 0679756604 |
lumet's an interesting guy to think about if one decides to make a film -- the guy's made some of the best films of our time. but for me, lumet provides a cautionary tale of what not to become.
12 Angry Men
Dog Day Afternoon
Network
The Verdict
Serpico
Before the Devil Knows...
| Author | David Mamet |
| ISBN | 0140127224 |
According to David Mamet, a film director must, above all things, think visually. Most of this instructive and funny book is written in dialogue form and based on film classes Mamet taught at Columbia University. He encourages his students to tell their stories not with words, but through the juxtaposition...
