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Rom-Coms have slowly fallen out of grace with Hollywood. As the scripts got worse and more formulaic, audiences grew tired of them — and so did actors.

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Be consistent in the delivery of your characters. Your characters are the sole essence of your film and it’s important to maintain their defining characteristics uniformly throughout the movie.

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Screenwriting contests have become the ultimate way to penetrate those thick studio walls.

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The truth is, Hollywood has a tendency to treat female protagonists as second-class citizens. The majority of female characters are still mothers, girlfriends, wives. or the “means well” secretary/assistant to the male hero.

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“Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”

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You have to ask yourself what kind of show you’d like to create and where you see that type of show debuting.

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My first memory of childhood was of a gold-plated, metallic, humanoid figure walking through barren sand dunes with the seemingly endless skeleton of an unknown, but gigantic, creature in the background.

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Luck is an integral part of success in Hollywood, or often anywhere in life. But we don’t have to be a slave to it. We don’t have to sit by the phone, waiting for it to call.