“Behind the Curtain: Discover How One Journalist is Unearthing the Untold Stories of Hollywood’s Hidden Screenwriters”
Moonlight’s Barry Jenkins gave me a masterclass in threading your own experience and emotion into other people’s stories in our conversation about how he adapted Moonlight. Aaron Sorkin [The West Wing, The Social Network] taught me the importance of “writing dialogue as though your characters are yelling at God.”
The list really does go on and on, and it’s probably the biggest source of pride of mine that so many people get in touch weekly, either via email or by sliding into my Instagram DMs to explain how something they heard on the show unlocked a new idea or got their screenplay over the finish line.
