😅 It's great, right?! I screenshotted this thread 5 years ago and shared it on my personal Facebook page. I got a Memory prompt about it in October. And then noticed that Christopher McQuarrie's Twitter account is gone as well. Happy to do my part in keeping the good stuff alive 😉
😅 McQuarrie actually deleted his Twitter account. So these Tweets are gonners! 😳 The only reason I had these was because I screenshotted them 5 years ago... Hope you dig the advice.
Man this is exactly what I've been thinking for my own career. I'm just finishing up my first script but boy do I have plenty more just waiting for me to get started. I realized that it's so unlikely that any studio would ever even read my script let alone buy it and make it. I've had the idea that micro budget filmmaking is most likely my way to go to get started. I have other story ideas that can work perfectly for a micro budget. So now instead of looking for way to get executives to read my script, I'm now looking for ppl in the micro budget scene that I can probably easily get in touch with and they WILL read my script if they're interested. Micro budget is the way to go folks. But yeah I guess we can also keep playing the lottery at the same time. I mean ya never know right?
Love it! This is a solid mindset. I would also add that you can connect with producers and decision-makers and see if they have ideas that they would love to develop - and then offer your services. If they want to see a sample of your writing, you can send it on. And now they are reading your script 😉 But going with micro budget is an awesome approach. Team with a local director and some actors and produce a scene or a sample as well. Mainly just get out there and enjoy the process of making it. This is the most authentic way to make connections and you'll learn a ton along the way.
This is ignorant advice. It totally depends on your situation. For me, I went to a shitty film school (though at a good university) through which I got my first gig (on America’s Most Wanted). I learned how to write screenplays (poorly, 😉), and made my first films. Three years later I was working at Paramount. For me, at the time, film school was THE ONLY way I could get any experience and without that experience I wouldn’t have gotten into Paramount. Was it as easy as it sounds? Of course not. It was (almost) impossibly hard. I got lucky, but as they say, “luck favors the prepared” and I was prepared just enough for someone to take a chance on me. That wouldn’t have happened without film school.
Wrong. I went to film school and it was through film school that I made the connections and got the opportunity to get into the film industry. You get what you put in. Just because film school doesn’t work for some people doesn’t mean it won’t work for others. The opposite is true also, just because some people didn’t need film school to be successful in film, doesn’t mean you will be successful without film school.
Can't, son. 💪😎✌️ Without coin, connections, crews, clout, computer code, control, corporate communities, and opulent opportunities, an individual (or small group) has NO chance. It's absolutely, unequivocally impossible without those eight things. No exceptions. Anyone who states things differently is either lying or they've already BEEN lucky enough to get inside and be forever wealthy and popular.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat Ever rule has an exception, BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and CLERKS were produced and became big hits. It is extremely rare, but it can happen.
I don't see how any of this is practical. If you want to be a professional writer find someone who needs a writer, show them your screenplays portfolio, then help THEM write THEIR movies/shows. Then go from there. Work with those low level filmmakers and actors. Work with people who are on your level. Hollywood wants you to do the job.
@writing-chops I did but honestly him repeating the "it's a lottery" analogy just blurs the point that can otherwise be explained better. Edit: No offense😂 look at me, a nobody, trying to sound like I can do something better than the BAFTA and Academy Award winning guy who gave us masterpieces like Usual Suspects and the original X-Men that I genuinely use as models for my own scripts lol. Thanks OP for sharing the vid
Without coin, connections, crews, clout, computer code, control, corporate communities, and opulent opportunities... *you ain't sheet.* End of story; no exceptions. 💪😎✌️ Deal with that reality or else go drink a nice tall, frothy chalice of copium.
I had forgotten about this thread. Twitter is so dead that I have to go to TH-cam to remember the good stuff lol
😅 It's great, right?!
I screenshotted this thread 5 years ago and shared it on my personal Facebook page. I got a Memory prompt about it in October. And then noticed that Christopher McQuarrie's Twitter account is gone as well. Happy to do my part in keeping the good stuff alive 😉
Thanks for reading these tweets
😅 McQuarrie actually deleted his Twitter account. So these Tweets are gonners! 😳
The only reason I had these was because I screenshotted them 5 years ago... Hope you dig the advice.
Man this is exactly what I've been thinking for my own career. I'm just finishing up my first script but boy do I have plenty more just waiting for me to get started. I realized that it's so unlikely that any studio would ever even read my script let alone buy it and make it. I've had the idea that micro budget filmmaking is most likely my way to go to get started. I have other story ideas that can work perfectly for a micro budget. So now instead of looking for way to get executives to read my script, I'm now looking for ppl in the micro budget scene that I can probably easily get in touch with and they WILL read my script if they're interested. Micro budget is the way to go folks. But yeah I guess we can also keep playing the lottery at the same time. I mean ya never know right?
Love it! This is a solid mindset. I would also add that you can connect with producers and decision-makers and see if they have ideas that they would love to develop - and then offer your services. If they want to see a sample of your writing, you can send it on. And now they are reading your script 😉
But going with micro budget is an awesome approach. Team with a local director and some actors and produce a scene or a sample as well. Mainly just get out there and enjoy the process of making it.
This is the most authentic way to make connections and you'll learn a ton along the way.
Thanks for this video 👌
Hope it helps! ⭐️
Never ever ever ever go to film school. Get a job that will pay you everyday. Do this in your spare time or you will starve.
Another reason to get a job is that it gives you unique life experiences that can be translated into your writing projects.
This is ignorant advice. It totally depends on your situation. For me, I went to a shitty film school (though at a good university) through which I got my first gig (on America’s Most Wanted). I learned how to write screenplays (poorly, 😉), and made my first films. Three years later I was working at Paramount. For me, at the time, film school was THE ONLY way I could get any experience and without that experience I wouldn’t have gotten into Paramount. Was it as easy as it sounds? Of course not. It was (almost) impossibly hard. I got lucky, but as they say, “luck favors the prepared” and I was prepared just enough for someone to take a chance on me. That wouldn’t have happened without film school.
Wrong. I went to film school and it was through film school that I made the connections and got the opportunity to get into the film industry. You get what you put in. Just because film school doesn’t work for some people doesn’t mean it won’t work for others. The opposite is true also, just because some people didn’t need film school to be successful in film, doesn’t mean you will be successful without film school.
Thanks for reading the original EC comics.
They're the best! ❤️
And I couldn't believe how big this book was when I ordered it.
Thanks for watching 🙌
Most people aren't skilled enough to write something good.
And a lot of those people become the decision-makers. So go show your creative skills to them and help them tell their story…
Can't, son. 💪😎✌️ Without coin, connections, crews, clout, computer code, control, corporate communities, and opulent opportunities, an individual (or small group) has NO chance. It's absolutely, unequivocally impossible without those eight things. No exceptions. Anyone who states things differently is either lying or they've already BEEN lucky enough to get inside and be forever wealthy and popular.
@@Novastar.SaberCombat Ever rule has an exception, BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and CLERKS were produced and became big hits. It is extremely rare, but it can happen.
I don't see how any of this is practical. If you want to be a professional writer find someone who needs a writer, show them your screenplays portfolio, then help THEM write THEIR movies/shows. Then go from there. Work with those low level filmmakers and actors. Work with people who are on your level. Hollywood wants you to do the job.
That's McQuarrie's point though... Check out his 8th and 14th Tweet.
@writing-chops I did but honestly him repeating the "it's a lottery" analogy just blurs the point that can otherwise be explained better.
Edit: No offense😂 look at me, a nobody, trying to sound like I can do something better than the BAFTA and Academy Award winning guy who gave us masterpieces like Usual Suspects and the original X-Men that I genuinely use as models for my own scripts lol.
Thanks OP for sharing the vid
100% regret
Regret not seeing this advice sooner...? 😏
Without coin, connections, crews, clout, computer code, control, corporate communities, and opulent opportunities... *you ain't sheet.* End of story; no exceptions. 💪😎✌️ Deal with that reality or else go drink a nice tall, frothy chalice of copium.
Here's an aesthetic suggestion..
Change your shirt... Its more awkward than your body language and background
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