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Advice for Screenwriters from Walt Disney Pictures President

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In this interview, Nina Jacobson talks about how to become a successful screenwriter in Hollywood. How do you find a literary agent? How do you get your script in front of the studios? These questions and more are answered by one of the most powerful women in the entertainment industry.

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  • rubbish. the americans triumph free capitalism but knock back many good scripts to protect large scale hollywood investments. the french do script to screen in 8 weeks in some cases. and their movies have a thought train. hollywood is just corporate propaganda.

  • @snakeeater80 Hitchcock, Kubrick, Spielberg, James Cameron, Peter Jackson, David Fincher, Christopher Nolan, Danny Boyle... just to name a few who haven't been in a Film School!

    I don't think movies would be the same without them!

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  • my pirates screenplay is at

    ronkaiser.blogspot.com

    Jack runs into a family of vampires that become pirates

    and from their I have another one Jack is taken on a slave ship

    Thanks if you read them --- Ron

  • @flyingjoey I think she may be talking about first drafts. You know? Never fall in love with your first draft as a writer because love blinds. Writers have to rewrite and revision over and over again before they get it right.

  • Totally agree this is a bitch that had doors closed on her face. She expects you get same treatment. Notice how she said new screenwriters will write crap in the beginning!

    How does her lazy ass know?

  • She's a typical corporate cunt. I wish I could smack this dumb bitch in the face.

    SCREENWRITERS! DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS CUNT'S ADVICE!!!!

  • But no matter what the script looks like, Disney would probably concentrate on the plot and imagination of the story. It's not like they would just toss out something that's in poor condition. I suck at grammar, but I am good at imagination. In fact, I may have something motivating for Walt Disney Animation Studious. If accepted, they'd better not make it 3D, this movie works for 2D animation.

  • @snakeeater80 Best comment here!

  • I must say the scripts for episodes of disney shows are amazingly good, like the twists, and the mix of tales plotted together into one full script is well done.

  • @snakeeater80 Most? I would say that's an exaggeration. There are more great directors who went to film school than those who didn't it and I can prove it to you.

  • Most of the greatest directors and writers have never stepped into a filmschool!

    This lady clearly only knows about her job. The industry works very different from the other side.

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