Too many film schools, as well as any number of screenwriting gurus and an obscene number of how-to-write tomes, have made a business of catering to fledgling screenwriters and filmmakers by exploiting their belief that the only thing standing between them and an Oscar is the right kind of knowledge. If only one knew enough, one could easily become rich and famous. Unfortunately, almost all are susceptible to that eternal malady that last great infirmity of the soul which is FAME. And whilst I dont deny the value of technical knowledge, such knowledge matters very little if the story one is trying to tell doesnt matter, either because its incoherent or simply because it fails to make us care.
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Billy Marshall Stoneking was a 20th-century American writer. William Randolph Marshall, better known as Billy Marshall Stoneking, was an American-Australian poet, playwright, filmmaker, and teacher. His son C.W. Read more on Wikipedia →