It is astonishing just how different someone that knows their stuff sounds compared to someone who doesn't. I mean Mark sounds so secure and knowledgeable that he doesn't mind giving some of that knowledge away. Super thanks for this upload.

@filmcourage

2 жыл бұрын

Mark is excellent. We had a great visit with him. Thanks for watching Meg!

This is like sitting down with a war veteran. You know he's seen just about every scenario you could imagine and somehow made it out alive so he could tell future generations what he's been through.

@ellenlewitt

2 жыл бұрын

Totally. You connected the perfect parallel!

I have loved Marc's work for decades, and now I love him as a person too. Any one of those bits of advice can change a career, or a life, and he dropped four or five of them in twelve minutes.

Marc’s videos are all solid advice and utterly inspirational.

I know several people who got their careers started by getting a small group of filmmakers together, with each one writing and directing their own horror short, while producing and crewing on one another's shorts, and sharing resources. Then, in post they combined the shorts with a wrap around segment, and turned their individual projects into an anthology feature. It's a very practical way to make a "feature" film.

This was an excellent video with a great, practical perspective.

@filmcourage

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

For anyone who wants to make it in Film/TV this channel is essential. So much value it's not even funny.

@arbiter8246

2 жыл бұрын

I’m just here because the content is fun to listen to.

@HardcoreMotors

2 жыл бұрын

@@arbiter8246 Ever thought about getting a life?

This video made me smile. What a gentle giant. Thank you.

Marc and Elaine are so great! I studied with them in LA and the amazing community they created. They are Rare Birds in LA encouraging, sincere and rooted in the belief that the success pie is infinite.

@filmcourage

14 күн бұрын

Thank you for the comment. We also love Marc and Elaine's positive spirits! We have a full inspiring interview of them together here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fG2Kw6SphZzPXaw.html

Another great piece, thank you very much.

I look forward to watching the rest of this interview.

@filmcourage

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Lon, we look forward to sharing more of this interview. Marc has so much wisdom to pass on.

wow, Marc has some unique insights and perspective. very helpful, thank you both!

@filmcourage

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, thanks for watching!

This was great advice and a confidence booster. For me, will be finding the balance of writing scripts and getting script made. Which things I want to see be made vs which things are just fun to write and not really care for them to be made.

Thank you for the valuable advice..

just two minutes in he gives advice so obvious you could never see it.. great interview

What's your favorite quote from this one?

Thanks for sharing! I found your interview with Marc helpful. I wrote a script to sell and I am now writing a script for me to produce and direct. Knowing which is which is important.

In my next life, I hope to be cool enough to pull off glasses like those.

Thank you

This an amazing vd, he knows, its so evident that he knows! Congrats! Super duper advice!

@filmcourage

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Mikel!

Very interesting and insightful. Thank you

@filmcourage

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers Howard! Another good one with Marc going up this Tuesday at 5pm PST.

A lot of great, grounded advice from Mark!

@filmcourage

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Thank you for this Wisdom

@filmcourage

2 жыл бұрын

Cheers, we are glad you found some wisdom here!

Cool guy. Good advice.

protect this man at all costs 👍

Do you want to write a script...or do you want to make a movie?

@meg-k-waldren

2 жыл бұрын

Both tbh.

@peterpan1435

2 жыл бұрын

Throughout writing my feature screenplay I envisaged the practicalities and challenges of filming of the movie scene by scene. I experienced my writing as a component of my movie which is currently in pre-production. The early stages of pre-production.

Another fantastic interview!

@filmcourage

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Cristen!

@CristenIris

2 жыл бұрын

@@filmcourage I found your other interview of Marc from 8 years ago, watching that now. More great advice with a humble yet confident vibe.

@filmcourage

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, indeed. Marc is excellent. We've now interviewed Marc 3 times. One of our favorites is our interview with Marc and his wife Elaine - kzread.info/dash/bejne/fG2Kw6SphZzPXaw.html

@CristenIris

2 жыл бұрын

@@filmcourage I'll check that out next! :)

television writing is the best way to go

inspiring

Perspective 👍

I'm beginning to wonder if wanting to be a screenwriter is like wanting to be a rock star. Do you want to be a screenwriter because you actually have ideas and have a basic grasp of the craft? Or do you want the fame, money, and Hollywood lifestyle and screenwriting seems like the way to get that stuff? If you just don't have the chops, sooner or later reality lets you know. If you're a mediocre guitar player, all the talk in the world won't cover for the moment you have to sit down and play something.

He is the man! I met him in 2018 in New York Comic Con!

I want to write scripts and make movies haha. My ultimate goal is to be a writer-director but as I want to get into writing for animation I'm willing to work my ass off for however long it takes before I get the chance to direct my own work. My dream is to have my own animation studio but before I get there I gotta climb the mountain.

@filmcourage

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Matthew, start now. Start creating and sharing your animation on KZread. If you are willing to put in the extra work, might as well as start now and put that extra effort into your KZread animation studio now.

@filmcourage

2 жыл бұрын

PS - If you are not familiar with this story it is worth checking out - kzread.info/dash/bejne/fJl906yKqbPdg7g.html

omg, there's a 'secret language' ?? does syd field and robert mckee mention this? sounds like another level of mastery required.

@gmenezesdea

2 жыл бұрын

Carriere mentions this

Persistence with charm…

This is actual good advice lol. Kinda rare on this channel sometimes

@filmcourage

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you found one helpful video here. Sorry about the rest. Maybe what we do isn't what you need at this point in your life.

Rod Serling used to say, is this the truth as I know it, or better yet, the truth as I feel it?

right. I was just on set with Pete Chatmon (Director/Writer), and ask for advice for writers. He gladly told me.... Peanskean Riddler

The script of a thing must be a difficult thing.

MR. SciFi !!!

DO NOT PUT BABIES IN RIVERS.

💎💎💎

I want to be able to make my own shows and movies. Like, I really want my stories to come to life.

@noteem5726

2 жыл бұрын

Do it. How many pages have you written

@kenrickbautista6141

2 жыл бұрын

@@noteem5726 2 or 3. I plan on doing 50 or 60 pages long.

@noteem5726

2 жыл бұрын

@@kenrickbautista6141 So you're making TV pilots? Why don't you have more than a couple of pages done yet? Time to get on it

@kenrickbautista6141

2 жыл бұрын

@@noteem5726 oh, you know. Work and stuff. But yeah, I'm getting on that.

@noteem5726

2 жыл бұрын

@@kenrickbautista6141 Yup, same excuse we all give. No more excuses, if that's your dream I want to see double the pages by this weekend. So 4 to 6 pages completed by Sunday evening.

It blows my mind that studios pay so much money for scripts that they're never going to produce!

@joannkelly7994

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. So, to the point.

typing is harder than climbing K2

@Ruylopez778

2 жыл бұрын

Kurosawa compared writing to mountain climbing. You can find a clip of it on KZread. “I think young people today don’t know the trick of it. They start and want to get to the end right away. When you go mountain climbing, the first thing you’re told is not to look at the peak but to keep your eyes on the ground as you climb. You just keep climbing patiently one step at a time. If you keep looking at the top, you’ll get frustrated. I think writing is similar. You need to get used to the task of writing. You must make an effort to learn to regard it not as something painful but as routine.”

@zaroonyakhyakhan4514

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ruylopez778 thanks its helpful . and this is exactly my case i can't set my routine right even writing for five minutes seems big deal to me but instead of that i spent entire day on KZread and other things.

@Ruylopez778

2 жыл бұрын

@@zaroonyakhyakhan4514 Yeah, I think a lot of people go through that. Steven Pressfield talks about 'resistance'. Most of it is just fear - fear of judgement, fear of failure. Routines work for some people. I think it definitely gets easier to make yourself start, once you're in the habit of starting. Another thing you could try is writing a list of reasons why you want to write (just for yourself to read), including all the meaningful and shallow reasons, as a way of motivation. Or reduce the pressure & expectations for a goal you can easily achieve (write one sentence) or write something like a bad poem unrelated to what you need/want to write. Often you'll naturally exceed that target, just by starting and having an idea spark another idea. Corey Mandell has some exercises for procrastination.

@zaroonyakhyakhan4514

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ruylopez778 i will do that. thanks

@Ruylopez778

2 жыл бұрын

@@zaroonyakhyakhan4514 I try to remind myself that the key to getting better at writing, is to keep writing and finishing things. Incremental improvements add up over time. It was the same for me with photography; taking pictures every day, you make progress with your technique, and that motivates you, even though you know you will have rough days, where you have no motivation or get frustrated. It can change in a moment, for good or bad.

Can I sell a script for 20 million dollars?

@chrisoliver3642

2 жыл бұрын

Sure, right after you sell a script that earns $200 million dollars at the box office.

Isn’t “most important question a screenwriter has to ask themselves.” Incorrect? Does someone here have a good grasp of English to help me out here?

@wtfckjackson

2 жыл бұрын

English can be extremely complicated sometimes, but yes that is correct English but it would need a “the” at the beginning of that question.

@michaelwalker8250

2 жыл бұрын

@@wtfckjackson shouldn’t it be “themself” not “themselves”? It says “a” . Singular.

@wtfckjackson

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelwalker8250 since he’s talking about screenwriters in general I think that “themselves” is the right choice, I could be wrong though.

@chrisoliver3642

2 жыл бұрын

It is technically wrong* since "screenwriter" is singular and "themselves" is plural. * the best kind of wrong!

@michaelwalker8250

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrisoliver3642 The best kind of wrong?