Advice

This is a collection of quick links to posts which contain advice about some facet of screenwriting or filmmaking, for easy reference.

• 5 Golden Rules of Moviemaking - Jim Jarmusch
• 5 Openings to Avoid Like the Plague - Lucy V. Hay
• 5 Questions - Steve Kaplan
• 5 Quick Math Tricks for Filmmakers - Griffin Hammond
• 5 Skills Not Taught in Film School - Brenna Erickson
• 5 Tips for Cleaning Up Your Script - Julie Gray
• 5 Tips for First-time Filmmakers - Jon Stewart
• 6 Filmmaking Tips - Rian Johnson 
• 6 Golden Rules of Moviemaking - McG
• 6 Lies of Film Distribution - Jerome Courshon
• 6 Must-have Elements for Financiers and Buyers - Laura Scheiner
• 6 Tips for Getting Your Web Series Off the Ground- Maddy Kadish
• 7 Tips for Surviving the Film Industry - John Hawkes
• 7 Things I Learned about Crowdfunding Movies - Alex Cox
• 8 Mistakes Filmmakers Make - Elliot Grove
• 8 Secrets of Success - Richard St. John 
• 10 Commandments of Directing Comedy - David Dobkin
• 10 Golden Rules of Moviemaking - Eli Roth
• 10 Lessons about Filmmaking - Terry Gilliam
• 10 Lessons for Filmmakers - Scott Macauley
• 10 Lessons on Filmmaking - Ken Loach
• 10 Rules for Writing 'Groundhog Day' - Danny Rubin
• 10 Things Producers Should Know about Screenwriting - Elliot Grove
• 10 Tips for Independent Filmmakers - Gary Hustwit
• 10 Tips for Screenwriters - Tony Gilroy
• 11 Laws of Great Story-telling - Jeffrey Hirschberg
• 11 Tips on Editing Short Films - Jordan Kerfeld
• 12 Screenwriting Principles - Daniel Martin Eckhart
• 13 Golden Rules - Steve Buscemi
• 15 Golden Rules of Moviemaking - Danny Boyle
• 18 Things Highly Creative People Do Differently - Carolyn Gregoire
• 18 Ways to Prepare for an Industry Meeting - Dan Mirvish
• 20 Favorite Films since 1992 - Quentin Tarantino
• 22 Story Lessons... from Pixar - Emma Coats
• 25 Rules for Directors - Sam Mendes
• 50 Woody Allen Films - Ranked From Worst to Best - Jordan Hoffman
• A Personal Journey Through American Movies - Intro - Martin Scorsese
• Acting In Film - Michael Caine
• Actors, Dialogue and the Art of Listening - Michael Caine
• Advice on acting - Jack Lemmon
• Audiences and Happiness - Lindsay Doran
• A spec screenplay, 1912 - Anita Loos
• A Story Told With Pictures - Syd Field
• Beyond the Spec Sale - Sheila Gallien
• Billy Wilder
• Breaking Bad // Pulp Fiction
• Breaking Bad POV shots - Kogonada
• Breaking Bad wide shots
• Breaking the 4th Wall Movie Supercut
• Busby Berkeley and the Coen Brothers
• Career advice - Judd Apatow
• Common Mistakes Made by Webseries Creators - Yuri Baranovsky
• Composition - What is it?
• Counterpoint in Film Music - Noémie Lachance/Jana Zander
• Distribution of Australian films - Seph McKenna/Nick Batzias/Rachel Okine
• Documentary on the Coen brothers
• Essential Film List - Spike Lee
• Everything is a Remix - Kirby Ferguson
• Everything I've Learnt About Making Films - Nigel Cole
• Facebook Fraud
• Film Analysis - 'Lost in Translation'
• Film Fest Schmoozing in Five Steps - Steve Goldbloom & Noah Pink
• Filmmaking Philosophy - John Sturges
• Film Noir - PBS American Cinema
• Film Subjects Student Filmmakers Should Avoid - Michael Rabiger
• First Act Turning Point - Linda Aronson
• First Step In Writing A Screenplay - Richard Walter
• Foley Artist - Caoimhe Doyle
• Formula for a Great Story - Ken Burns
• Free Screenplays - 2011
• Free Screenplays - 2012
• Free Screenplays - 2013
• Free Screenplays - 2014
• Free Screenplays - 2015
• Free Screenwriting Software
• Free Screenwriting Software - Updated
• Funding Films in a Changing Landscape - The Filmmakers Collaborative
• Grip it Good - Mark Vargo
• Helping People Get to See Your Short Film Online - Ryan Koo
• History of Horror - John P. Hess
• Horse Before Cart...  Sheri Candler
• How Did They Write It? - Screenplay formatting
• How Google Rates Your Website
• How I Made an Impossible Film - Martin Villeneuve
• How I Started My Career - Robert Towne 
• How to Ask People for Money - Andrew Frank
• How to Build a Following, for Independent Filmmakers - Edward Burns
• How to Build Your Creative Confidence - David Kelley
• How to Do Action Comedy - Jackie Chan
• How to Do Visual Comedy - Edgar Wright
• How to Film a Dialogue Scene - Tom Antos
• How to Get a Script Read In Hollywood - Thunder Levin
• How to Make a 30 Second Commercial - Dave Dugdale
• How to Survive on Set Without Looking Like an Asshole - Callam Rodya
• How to Win a Screenwriting Competition - Gordy Hoffman
• How to Write a Joke - Jerry Seinfeld
• How to Write a Logline - Michael Schilf
• How to Write a Scene - John August
• Ian Fleming interviews Raymond Chandler - BBC
• "I Give It A Year" - Dan Mazer
• Indie Film Distribution - Jason Brubaker
• In search of a bigger (online) audience - Dutch Gordon
  
• Influences - Quentin Tarantino
• Interview - Nora Ephron
• Interview - Federico Fellini
• Interview - Aaron Sorkin
• Introduction to Color in Digital Filmmaking
• Making a Living as a Screenwriter - John Truby
• Marketing Lessons from Selfies - Kelly Bush
• McTaggart Lecture - Kevin Spacey
• Mini Documentary - Wes Anderson
• Motivated Camera Movement - Vashi Nedomansky
• Music for your Video
• Never go to a meeting without a strategy - Lynda Obst
• Neorealism vs Mainstream (American) filmmaking
• Notes on Notes - Brad Riddell
• On Editing - Akira Kurosawa
• On Filmmaking - J.J. Abrams
• On Filmmaking - Akira Kurosawa
• On Filmmaking - Ron Howard
• On Filmmaking - Callie Khouri
• On Filmmaking - David Lean
• On Filmmaking - George Lucas
• On Filmmaking - Ridley Scott
• On Filmmaking - Kevin Smith
• On Filmmaking - Steven Spielberg
• On Filmmaking - Nia Vadalos
• On Screenwriting - John August
• On Screenwriting - Dustin Lance Black
• On Screenwriting - Shane Black
• On Screenwriting - Julian Fellowes
• On Screenwriting - Scott Frank
• On Screenwriting - Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel
• On Screenwriting - Tony Gilroy
• On Screenwriting - David S. Goyer
• On Screenwriting - Susannah Grant
• On Screenwriting - Ted Griffin
• On Screenwriting - Paul Haggis
• On Screenwriting - Brian Helgeland
• On Screenwriting - Buck Henry
• On Screenwriting - Brian Helgeland
• On Screenwriting - Nick Kazan  
• On Screenwriting - Brian Koppelman 
• On Screenwriting - Allan Loeb
• On Screenwriting - Abi Morgan
• On Screenwriting - Mike Newell
• On Screenwriting - Billy Ray
• On Screenwriting - Eric Roth
• On Screenwriting - Sheldon Turner
• On Screenwriting - Jim Uhls
• On Screenwriting - Billy Wilder
• On Writing - Elmore Leonard
• On Writing - Henry Miller
• On Writing - David Ogilvy
• On Writing - John Steinbeck
• On Writing - Kurt Vonnegut
• Pitching - Common Mistakes Made While - Stephanie Palmer
• Pitching - Eight easy ways to kill a movie pitch stone dead - Lucy Hay
• Pitching - The Forgotten Tool - Minda Zetlin
• Pitching - To the Crowd - Thomas Mai
• Pitching - The Three Stages of Pitch - Lynda Obst
• Plagiarism?
• ReadThrough - Guy Goldstein
• Recurrent Problems with Spec Screenplays - profound_whatever
• Screenwriter Online "Communities"
• Screenwriters Lecture - Peter Straughan
• Screenwriting clichés
• Script Analysis - 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
• Selling Screenplays to Hollywood - Allison Burnett
• Script Development Strategies - Linda Aronson
• Shadows in the Valley - Roger Deakins
• Story structure - Darious J. Britt
• Story vs Plot - Martin Scorsese
• Texting and the Internet in Film - Tony Zhou
• The Adventures of Douglas Slocombe
• The Art of Being a Conductor - David Fincher
• The Art of Close-ups - Edgar Wright
• The Art of Film & TV Title Design
• The Art of Portrait Photography
• The Art of Silence - Martin Scorsese
• The Best Advice... - Joe Eszterhas
• The Birth of Cinema and Continuity Editing - John P. Hess
• The Clues to a Great Story - Andrew Stanton
• The Creative Process - Tiffany Shlain
• The Early Years of American Zoetrope
• The Evolution of Movie Sound - Francis Ford Coppola
• The Film Before The Film
• The Gap - Ira Glass
• "The Godfather" and how to find the Theme - Brian McDonald
• The Hero's Journey - Boot and Gloves
• The Hollywood Sound - Konstantin Mishchenko
• The History and Science of Color Film - John P. Hess
• The History of CinemaScope - David Bordwell
• The History of the Movie Trailer - John P. Hess
• The Hitchcock Techniques - Jeffrey Michael Bays
• The Loudness Wars
• The MacGuffin - Alfred Hitchcock
• The Making of "Goodfellas"
• The Melville Variations
• The Mystery Box - J.J. Abrams
• The Mystery of Storytelling - Julian Friedmann
• The Official Screenwriting Podcast - Adam Levenberg
• The Origins of Screenplay Formatting - John Hess
• The Origins of Zombie mania?
• The Psychology of Scary Movies - John Hess
• The Rules of Film Noir - Matthew Sweet
• The Soviet Theory of Montage - John Hess
• The Spielberg One Shot - Tony Zhou
• The Toughest Scene I Wrote - Chris Terrio
• The Truth About Filmmaking - Elliot Grove
• The Truth About Independent Filmmaking - Elliot Grove
• The Wilhelm Scream
• The Writer Speaks - Billy Wilder
• Theme, a Dilemma  - Alan Watt
• Time Management - Chase Jarvis
• Top 10 Tips - Roger Deakin
• Top 10 Writing Tips - Joss Whedon
• Top 10 Screenwriting Tips - Script To Screen 2014
• TV Writing Masterclass - David Mamet
• Visual Metaphor, Theme and Story Structure - Sam Peckinpah
• What Do Movie Stars Want in a Script? - Carson Reeves
• What makes a great screenplay? - John Yorke
• What's that gun?
• When No One Wants To Buy Your Script - Steve Kaplan
• Why do we get nervous?
• Why Screenwriters and Filmmakers Fail - Elliot Grove
• Why Things Sound Scary
• Writing Sympathetic Characters - Steve Kaplan