Scott Keiner

HOT TAKE: One Battle After Another is PT Anderson’s best movie. #movies #film #onebattleafteranother

I thought Spotify’s algorithm was pretty good… until they put Phish in discover weekly.

ChatGPT is now an episode of Nathan for You.

Sinners only dropped 6% in its second weekend. The last time a movie dropped that little was the first Avatar over the holiday season.

It’s an Easter miracle! Hollywood is born again!

…Or the coverage of Sinners has been mind-bogglingly incompetent.

Take your pick. #scriptsky #film #sinners

How Did ‘Sinners’ Really Do This Weekend? The Town with Matthew Belloni · Episode

Thank you @franklinleonard.bsky.social for taking the industry to school. 🚌Congratulations to Ryan Coogler, one of the greatest filmmakers of our time for his massive and well-earned success. #sinners #scriptsky open.spotify.com/episode/3qyC...

3/ If you ever believe it’s perfect, you’re not doing your job.

Your job is to see the flaws, to keep working on them, to try to improve every time, not to be perfect.

You release it into the world when you’ve exhausted your abilities, not when it’s perfect.

It never will be.

2/ The project you’re working on is never going to be perfect. It’s only going to be the best you can make it at that time using all of your resources.

But you will never be finished with it.

You will always see the flaws.

1/ Writing is a war of attrition. Every creative endeavor is. #scriptsky

This is an all-time classic of storytelling. #scriptsky

PJ is a great actor and a mensch. He’s also absolutely right about the need to rebuild IN L.A. #welovela #welovePJ

I’ll go one further. Lynch’s Dune is the best Dune and one of the best distillations of “the hero’s journey” out there.

"Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn’t recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I’d ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, I’ve lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We’d talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he’s gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything."

was mostly keeping it together until I read Kyle MacLachlan's tribute to David Lynch

It’s impossible for me to pick a “favorite” filmmaker, but only David Lynch changed my conception of what both a movie and reality could be. #rip #davidlynch

Josh Welsh, Film Independent President, Dies at 62 "The work we do at Film Independent has never been more necessary, and we will honor his legacy by continuing to build on the foundation he established," board chair Brenda Robinson said.

Josh helped so many writers, directors and producers (including me). A huge loss for indie film and the industry at large. #scriptsky #filmsky www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Some days reality is so wild, it wouldn’t be believable if you’d written it.

A lil' pack of TV & film writers of some of your favs
go.bsky.app/KiJYdaU
#ScriptSky #BlackSky #TVSky

Iguazu - 2024 Remaster Gustavo Santaolalla · Ronroco (2024 Remaster) · Song · 1998

And this music: open.spotify.com/track/1J2npW...

Top 0.5% of Fugazi listeners is all anyone needs to know about me. #spotify #wrapped

Paying for reads doesn’t work. #scriptsky

Films, books and artwork entering the public domain in 2025 A number of important classics become public domain in the U.S. soon, including early films with sound and famous paintings and novels

boingboing.net/2024/12/02/f...

To wit: bsky.app/profile/cine...

More useful than any book is reading every professional screenplay you can get your hands on.

Screenwriting a book by Paul Joseph Gulino The great challenge in writing a feature-length screenplay is sustaining audience involvement from page one through 120. Screenwriting: The Sequence Approach expounds on an often-overlooked tool that ...

I’ve read a lot of books on screenwriting, but only two were ever of any use. #scriptsky

citylights.com/theater-perf... (useful for “screenwriting” not “directing”)

bookshop.org/p/books/scre...

A huge spec sale on a specific topic that you also wrote about is not a reliable indicator of whether your script would’ve sold. #scriptsky

Actual screenwriting gold right here.

a girl in a native american costume is smiling and holding a cigarette in front of a fire . ALT: a girl in a native american costume is smiling and holding a cigarette in front of a fire .

The only Thanksgiving movie.

“The gods of my tribe have spoken. They said do not trust the pilgrims ... especially Sarah Miller. And for all of these reasons I have decided to scalp you and burn your village to the ground.”

~Screenplay by Paul Rudnick.

I figured the “corporation” part of that equation might win out. Great thread! Thank you for sharing.

It’s really not that complicated. If Zuck was the inventor of Bluesky, he would’ve invented Bluesky.

Does being public benefit corporation mean that Meta can’t buy you? This is all going much too well.