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The Last Detail, or How I Had Fun with Fake Brands and Easter Eggs on My New Movie

Drew Pearce pulls back the curtain on the exhaustive approach he took to world-building for his star-studded directorial debut, Hotel Artemis.

June 11, 2018

Playing the Blame Game

Writer-director-star Quinn Shephard looks back – with help from her mother, Laurie – on the roots of her debut feature, which she wrote at age 15.

January 17, 2018

Let the Healing Begin

Actor-writer-director Jade Jenise Dixon on escaping an abusive relationship, and how writing a screenplay about her experiences transformed her life.

December 15, 2017

Lena Dunham Talks with Danny Strong (Rebel in the Rye) for the Talkhouse Podcast

The creator of Girls chats with Strong, a fellow multihyphenate and one of her best friends, about his first film as writer-director.

What I Learned Working on The Night of the Hunter

Director Terry Sanders shares memories, script pages and drawings by Charles Laughton from his time on the iconic movie.

August 16, 2017

Mike Figgis on How Procrastination Led Him to a Screenwriting Epiphany (and to Write His New Book)

The Oscar-nominated writer-director explains how finding an old book while decluttering changed the way he approached his creative process.

July 11, 2017

Kumail Nanjiani (The Big Sick) Talks with Zoe Lister-Jones (Band Aid) for the Talkhouse Podcast

The writer-stars of two of this month's best new movies sit down for a chat about mixing comedy and drama, and life and art.

How I Wrote Arrival (and What I Learned Doing It)

Screenwriter Eric Heisserer shares notes and extracts from early drafts as he breaks down how he adapted Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life."

December 27, 2016

How I Wrote Lion, or Breaking the Rules By Finding the Poetry in Screenwriting

Screenwriter Luke Davies on how his past as a novelist and poet informed the way he approached telling the heartwarming true story of Saroo Brierley.

December 13, 2016

How I Wrote Arrival (and What I Learned Doing It)

Screenwriter Eric Heisserer shares notes and extracts from early drafts as he breaks down how he adapted Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life."

November 10, 2016

The Hustler and the Queen, Or How Mira Nair Helped Me Leave Anti-Heroes Behind to Tell Stories of The Other

Queen of Katwe screenwriter William Wheeler on how his current collaborator shifted his perspective on storytelling and the world.

September 30, 2016

“That Pisses the Fuck Off Outta Me”: Adventures with Young David Mamet

Director Stuart Gordon recalls when, while running a theatre company in Chicago in the 1970s, he first met the iconic playwright and filmmaker.

August 8, 2016