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…

Ramfis Myrthil, Film Producer, Film Consultant and Speaker: Sometimes you work on a production and after you’re done you just don’t want to produce anymore. That’s how I felt after this… Film Courage: Let’s say you’re on day four or five of production, long hours, maybe there’s been issues…

Anna David, Publisher, Author, Speaker, Podcast Host, and Television Personality: The tragedy I see is people work really hard on their books and then they pay attention to it for a week and then they move on to the next. That book is there for the rest of your…

Film Courage: What are the right ways and wrong ways to introduce a main character? Troy DeVolld, Producer/Author: I said earlier that backstory isn’t always story. If you are slavishly devoted to spelling out everything that’s happened to a person up to the point that you meet them for…

P.M. Lipscomb, Filmmaker: One thing I love in cinema that Christopher Nolan does is he’ll take these opening images that have one meaning and then when you watch the film a second time, they have a second meaning. Film Courage: Patrick, you’ve been a filmmaker for 15 years. P.M…

Kim Adelman, Author/Filmmaker/Instructor: Often in film festivals they’ll tell you The ticket to buy at the film festival is the short compilations because that’s where the really most exciting filmmaking is happening. Film Courage: What is a short film? Kim: What is the short film is a really good…