In a world where people tell their stories on film from ideas that start on paper, there are two powerful platforms that provide all the tools budding screenwriters need: Final Draft and Celtx. One is ...

Each fall, students squeeze between tables at the first Student Organization Fair of the year, listening to pitches from Northwestern’s prestigious clubs with claims of famous alumni and decades of ...

The first Oscar for Best Original Screenwriting, awarded during a brisk fifteen-minute ceremony that took place over the clinking sounds of dinner in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel ...

About a week after his last day at Latham & Watkins’ Brussels office, Sven Völcker relocated to Madrid to embark on a second ...

George Lucas defied many of the commandments of screenwriting, so why is the Star Wars saga so memorable? We ask a script expert. Richard Trenholm Former Movie and TV Senior Editor Richard Trenholm ...

There’s an inherent fascination with the lives and doings of great artists, arising from the accurate intuition that the work and the life are continuous—that there’s no real boundary between them, ...

This article originally appeared in the July 1991 issue of Esquire. To read every Esquire story ever published, upgrade to All Access. Several years ago my five-year-old daughter bounced into my study ...