WRITING
in
PICTURES
Screenwriting Made (Mostly) Painless
Joseph McBride
Vintage Books
A Division of Random House, Inc.New York
a vintage books original, february 2012
Copyright © 2012 by Joseph McBride
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books,a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada byRandom House of Canada Limited, Toronto.Vintage and colophon are registered trademarksof Random House, Inc.Grateful acknowledgment is made to the followingfor permission to quote from published or unpublished material:
The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Inside Secrets from Hollywood’s Top Writers
©
2001
by Karl Iglesias, reprintedby permission of Adams Media, an FTW Media, Inc., co., all rightsreserved; Joel and Ethan Coen, for quotations from their screenplay
The Big Lebowski
(published by Faber and Faber, London,
1998
);Francis Ford Coppola, for quotations from his speech to studentsat San Francisco State University, April
24
,
2009
; and excerpt from
Taxi Driver
by Paul Schrader, copyright ©
1990
by Paul Schrader,reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber, Inc., an affiliateof Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataMcBride, Joseph, 1947–Writing in pictures : screenwriting made (mostly) painless / by JosephMcBride.p. cm.Includes bibliographical references and index.ISBN 978-0-307-74292-6 (pbk.)1. Motion picture authorship. I. Title.PN1996.M455 2012808.2'3—dc232011042257
Book design by Rebecca Aidlin
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Writing in Pictures is a refreshingly practical and entertaining guide to screenwriting that provides what is lacking in most such books: a clear, step-by-step demonstration of how to write a screenplay.
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