Tony Gilroy on Screenwriting

Tony Gilroy, American screenwriter and filmmaker, wrote the screenplays for the Bourne series and directed the fourth installment with Jeremy Renner. He sat down for a chinwag with the Empire Podcast team to talk about screenwriting, the state of movie making today, and George Clooney.

Charlie Brooker interviews Vince Gilligan

Breaking Bad is one of the best TV dramas ever made. A black comedy, a Shakespearean morality tale, and a show that epitomizes the current trend in TV drama for unsympathetic protagonists, every episode is an incredible example of high tension storytelling with some of the tightest writing on the screen. At the Edinburgh International TV festival Charlie Brooker interviewed the show's creator Vince Gilligan. They cover everything from the inspiration and development to Vince Gilligan's entry into the industry.

Robert McKee - Big Think Interview

This in-depth interview with Robert McKee, one of the original screenwriting gurus, covers a lot of subjects, from the importance of mastering the craft of exposition, to whether the best screenwriting opportunities are in television. In regards to the latter he says, "television without question, is the most creative medium to write in today."

It's also encouraging when he discusses the benefits of failing, about how you have to write a bunch of unproduced screenplays because it's all practice, practice of the craft, as well as practice of life, and building up material and ideas. So we shouldn't get disheartened if we're not that 23 year old writer who got their first screenplay made, because when you finally do get something produced it'll be of real quality.