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    This Past Week’s SchechTweets

    March 15th, 2010
    • #mscbuys Finished the first draft of "MY STORY CAN BEAT UP YOUR STORY!" The exclamation mark is part of the title. Am excited, though. #

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    This Past Week’s SchechTweets

    October 18th, 2009

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    This Past Week’s SchechTweets

    October 11th, 2009
    • Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.–Alfred Hitchcock #
    • Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.–Billy Wilder #mscbuys #swu #
    • Reporters ask me what I feel China should do about Tibet. Who cares what I think? I'm a f**king actor! –Brad Pitt #mscbuys #swu #
    • You have to accept that the movie isn't going to be as good as you wanted it to be. –David Lean #mscbuys #swu #
    • Hollywood is high school with money. –Martin Mull #mscbuys #swu #

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    This Past Week’s SchechTweets

    October 4th, 2009
    • Tell it with pictures. Direct it like you were making a silent. –John Ford to Elia Kazan #mscbuys #swu #
    • First rule of screenwriting:You will be asked for changes as long as there is time, Xerox machines and actors –Dennis Foley #mscbuys #swu #
    • I was a failed playwright but one with TV shows on the air. -Garry Marshall #mscbuys #swu #
    • RT @tweetmeme Throw in the Towel | Marvin V. Acuna http://retwt.me/o72Y #
    • The more successful the villain, the more successful the picture. -Alfred Hitchcock #mscbuys #swu #

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    This Past Week’s SchechTweets

    September 27th, 2009
    • Marty, if the man and woman walk away 2gether at the end of the picture, it adds $10mil to the box office -Lucas to Scorsese #mscbuys #swu #
    • A lot of successful people in Hollywood aren't good listeners. -Ron Lux #mscbuys #swu #
    • My advice to a budding literary critic…learn to distinguish banality. Mediocrity thrives on ideas -Vladimir Nabokov #mscbuys #swu #
    • Unlike serial killer profiling, writing is a very depressing and lonely profession -Darin Morgan #mscbuys #swu #
    • "Actors? Schmucks. Screenwriters? Schmucks with Underwoods." – Jack Warner #mscbuys "swu #
    • Found old file on my computer "Shmucks with Underwoods." Quotes about writing and writers. I'll post 1 a day until they run out. #swu #
    • "Every 10 minutes there needs to be some kind of 'whammo,' something that gives the movie a sense of forward motion." Joel Silver. #mscbuys #
    • Old list, but very interesting. 2008 Spec Script Sales http://bit.ly/3XHfNE #screenwriting #

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    This Past Week’s SchechTweets

    September 20th, 2009
    • Eat, sleep, pray. Eat, sleep, pray. Repeat for a month. Happy New Year. #
    • Patrick Boivin — One of the most talented directors you’ve never heard of http://bit.ly/4gT4T #
    • Talked last night about the age of the guys in our show playing high schoolers. Today I saw this http://bit.ly/2rqgqF #screenwriting #
    • Met Alex Epstein last night at WWTV. Nice surprise having him there. His Blog — http://bit.ly/kTy1m #screenwriting #
    • When I write I listen to film soundtracks. Just found this cool site that reviews them. http://bit.ly/30kf9 #screenwriting #
    • Ever wonder what a meeting with most production executives is like? http://tinyurl.com/oxeecf #screenwriting #mscbuys #
    • Great writing tool for getting culture snapshots each year back to 1980. http://tinyurl.com/pjlut7 #screenwriting #mscbuys #
    • Am I the only one who didn’t know that “Nobody puts Baby in a corner,” is a famous line of dialog? #screenwriting #RIP Patrick Swayze #
    • Great quote from Playback Magazine: “Jennifer’s Body stars Megan Fox as a succubus/cheerleader who…Really, does it matter?” #screenwriting #
    • Sad about Patrick Swayze. I thought if anyone could kick cancer’s butt, it’d be him. He fought valiantly and with dignity. #
    • Jeff Biederman and I screening an ep of Overruled and speaking @ WWTV on Wed nite in Toronto. http://tinyurl.com/mcg6vx. #screenwriting #
    • #mscbuys Finally started work in earnest on my book “My Story Can Beat Up Your Story!” Dumped WORD and am now using Scrivener. 1 word-WOW! #

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