Chris Gore, Founder/Owner of FilmThreat/Author/Filmmaker: Please, if you’re a studio executive and you are watching this, everything is so corporate. What did Francis Ford Coppola say? Factory filmmaking. Just take the drivers from Fast and the Furious and put them in the Transformers cars. I miss loving Star Wars…

Film Courage: Would you say that 99 percent of all movies today are garbage? Chris Gore, Founder/Owner of FilmThreat/Author/Filmmaker: In an age where most movies are referred to as content, I would say that 99 percent of those movies are pretty…bad. I always try…when I say 99 percent I…

Film Courage: How do you define story? How do you teach it to clients and students? Glenn Gers, Screenwriter: I think the basic idea of a story is that you’re going to be following a character or characters. It’s entirely possible to tell the story of multiple characters. You…

Film Courage: What is the normal world? Steve Kaplan, Author/Instructor/Script Consultant: In The Comic Hero’s Journey (my second book) I tried to translate The Hero’s Journey into narrative for a comic film. The Hero’s Journey talks about The Ordinary World. The Normal World is like that but what’s important…

Film Courage: Scott, can you take us through a realistic scenario of a screenwriter pitching an idea to an executive? Where does it begin? Scott Kirkpatrick, Executive Vice President of Co-Productions & Distribution/Author: Usually it takes a good amount of schmoozing to get the meeting in the first place…

Film Courage: What is a myth? Christopher Vogler, Hollywood development executive, screenwriter, author and educator: A myth is a lot of things to a lot of people but I think the basic way I interpret this term is that it’s a story but it’s a story that has a…

Film Courage: What’s more important to story, the hero or the villain? Donald F. Glut, Writer, Film Director, and Screenwriter: I think the villain is usually more colorful. The hero can be very bland, without the villain, you don’t have a hero. You’ve got to give the hero something…

Film Courage: Tony, we have a quote from you and it is “Writing is about putting life on the page. It’s about finding the amazing in the mediocrity and the beautiful in the sewers. It’s important to get it on the page and be a writer.” Can we talk…