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  • Write On: 'The Smashing Machine' Writer/Director Benny Safdie

    January 5, 2026 · 45 min

    Writer/Director/Actor/Editor Benny Safdie is known for defying expectations and using his sense of humor to make a splash. He even once showed up on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon dressed all in silver, including painted silver hair…

  • Write On: 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' Co-Writers Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver

    December 30, 2025 · 41 min

    "We try to answer two questions before we say yes to a job or embark on a spec script: Why does the protagonist need this movie? And the other is: Why tell this story other than to make money? That was our attitude going into Jurassic…

  • Write On: 'The Long Walk' Screenwriter JT Mollner

    December 3, 2025 · 42 min

    "I didn't think I'd be a good fit as a writer if they were going to do a PG version of the story. That's not where my strength lies, so the great thing is that the version Francis [Lawrence, the director] wanted to make was the version I…

  • Write On: 'Hedda' Writer/Director Nia DaCosta

    October 30, 2025 · 36 min

    "I love adaptations. The beauty of adaptation, especially a classic, like Shakespeare and Chekhov or Ibsen, they're such a gift because they give you this beautiful framework, and it's almost like they're begging you to take it and make it…

  • Write On: 'Splinter Cell: Deathwatch' Creator/Writer Derek Kolstad

    October 20, 2025 · 39 min

    "As you do draft after draft, it becomes shorter and rendered down. And [Keanu Reeves and I] would go through scenes going, 'Can people say less? Can the action be tighter? Can the action sequence be shorter?' The action is an extension of…

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  • Write On: 'After the Hunt' Writer Nora Garrett

    October 17, 2025 · 38 min

    "People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election." –Otto Von Bismarck  "It's funny, because when I was writing After the Hunt, I definitely wasn't like, 'Oh, I want to write about this current…

  • Write On: 'Anemone' Co-Writer/Director Ronan Day-Lewis

    October 3, 2025 · 35 min

    "[My dad] really started to inhabit the characters, especially Ray, speaking as him during the writing process. That was when I realized this was going to be its own kind of special beast. Working with him taught me so much as a writer and…

  • Write On: 'All Of You' Writer/Director Will Bridges & Writer/Actor Brett Goldstein

    September 26, 2025 · 39 min

    "You have to love all your characters. Even if you're writing a bad guy. You, the writer, have to write them with love and empathy, and treat each character, give each character, a full life and a full arc in your story, even if their…

  • Write On: 'Mussolini: Son of the Century' Director Joe Wright

    September 17, 2025 · 37 min

    On today's episode, we speak with director Joe Wright whose new limited TV series Mussolini: Son of the Century, explores fascism through the early political career of Italy's Prime Minister Mussolini in the 1920s. The show is incredible…

  • Write On: 'The Toxic Avenger' Writer/Director Macon Blair

    August 28, 2025 · 41 min

    "The thing that started it all off was me saying [the character Toxie] should be a guy in a suit. In other words, let's not do a computer-generated creature, let's have a person in a suit and have that handmade, hand-stitched kind of…

  • Write On: 'Sirens' Creator/Showrunner Molly Smith Metzler

    August 12, 2025 · 40 min

    "Our goal in writing [Sirens] was to write something that makes you think, and offers the opportunity to re-examine your own assumptions that you made about these characters. And it's taxing. We ask some difficult questions. It's not The…

  • Write On: 'The Home' Director/Co-Writer James DeMonaco and Co-Writer Adam Cantor

    July 25, 2025 · 44 min

    "Write your own anxieties. Get into your own psyche. I think if it scares you – like, I'm terrified of guns, and that's where The Purge came from. But here, there were various generational fears and whatnot that led to The Home, Adam's…

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Designed to help you navigate the screenwriting industry, Final Draft, interviews working screenwriters, agents, managers, and producers to show you how successful executives and writers make a living writing and working with screenplays, and how you can use their knowledge to break into the industry. Subscribe today to catch every episode!