is fantastic. via the also fantastic io9.com:
Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don’t write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can’t do, and vice versa. It’s a shame when so many comics are storyboard-style, low-budget pitches for movies. [...]
i love david mamet. the memo below basically sums up a good portion of his ON DIRECTING FILM book, which really be required reading for those in the storytelling space. via movieline:
“CBS’s drama The Unit, about the lives of the highly trained members of a top-secret military division, was canceled last year, but a memo [...]