i could listen to him all day, but then no writing would get done

“The only difference is in movies your heroes heal and in television they keep bleeding” NUGGET!

After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world. Philip Pullman

I honestly wish I had enough money to be able to pay for this. the amount of things I've learned through this channel is unparalleled. I feel in debt!

This man is a genius, it has to be said. Thank you for this interview

Great Content and 5 young screenwriters disliked this video cuz they realise they have 10yrs to grind before getting any success. Patience is a virtue...

Peter was a great teacher about teaching story. So sorry that he left us.

why would anyone dislike an interview... trolls everywhere. and thanks for your uploads and loads of work behind them!

"Personal wounds. Every story is about that." Brilliant!!! Love the white chapstick story.

Peter Russell is great! I took his courses and I just love the way how he explains !

He is so amazing, stories sell because they are flawed and we can relate to that.

I can’t stop listening to this guy.

Fantastic interview! Saved it to my favorites for future reference :)

I really love your channel. It's broken the veil of mysticism about what it takes to make movies and tv to the point where I feel it's something that even I could possibly do.

Love this interview! I've watched it twice and I learn something new every time.

33:42 Film Courage should double her pay cause she is freaking good interviewer.

7:29 - ooh, a severe underestimation of "kindness as a superpower" idea (to quote Kenneth Branagh when he directed Cinderella). - e.g. Captain America, Katniss Everdeen, Regina Mills, Leslie Knope, Barry Allen, Supergirl, etc :) The higher the standard the character holds himself/herself up to, the more tragic the flaw becomes (it's much more compelling than watching an antihero laze about). The most self-sacrificing heroes can have the most surprising pasts...

I love Peter Russell's contributions. Thank you Film Courage!

RIP to a great teacher.

Wish I could be in your class. You ignite my creativity and bought tears to my eyes when I thought of my 10 most embarrassing secrets. I find it hard to be open about my feelings at times. Now I understand why.

Love this interview

Thank you so much for sharing these hugely valuable videos

"LA takedown" is the original movie. It was also made by Michael Mann. "Heat" is a remake of his own movie.

"Breaking Bad" & "Better Call Saul" has done wonders for New Mexico... Love it... and Love this tutorial "Great" (I'm from New Mexico) ...

So many golden nuggets here... Peter is a deep well of wisdom and a very insightful man!

I learn so much from Film Courage - I spend all day watching your videos. Thank you for this amazing content.

I really love this interview Film Courage! Thank you!

What a wonderful and helpful interview! Thank you both!

I love this so encouraging.

Peter Russel... You are GREAT... Everything you said about a person being "Wounded" is absolutely TRUE.. OMG.. my mouth is dropped open... I am in awe ... "Thank YOU" so much for this Tutorial... it explains so much (why) I write so well... (Smile). "Thank YOU" Film Courage for having this Genius on too... Love this man!!!!

I just said the same thing last night to a director .. that knows me from my band the Januaries .. I said I’m writing my episodic like I write songs .. intro verse prechorus chorus .. solo etc.. I really enjoy listening Peter Russell He is inspiring instead of trying to feed people with negativity like some of the other people I’ve seen interviewed not all just a couple

Amazingly good

i aim to dabble in all already did the novel and screenplay dance, I have plans for teleplays next.

I love this channel 💙🧡

This is great!

This is IMPORTANT!

Love "Heat".

By what metric are superhero films crashing and burning?

"That's why writers go crazy." Haha. Yep. Although, I wouldn't say it drives me to drink. It just stops me sleeping and makes my insomnia worse. Great interview.

He's speaking the truth!!!!!!!!!!

I thought Cap & Tony in Civil War were quite interesting. I actually find Cap more interesting as the movies progress. First one was very boring indeed. Before facing off in the final act. Cap: "he is my friend." Tony: "So was I." Me:" noooo." I felt that.

#FILM COURAGE I cant express how much you helped me to know about Screen Writing . I just want to know bout the Thriller format of Screenplay. Thank you.

The "Heat before Heat," he is referring to is the pilot for the TV series called "LA takedown." Also by Michael Mann, yeah it was going to be a tv series before it became a film. The pilot didn't do well, but the material was good.

I may have made this comment before, but I have no interest in writing a screenplay at this point. I am working on a genre novel and am uninterested in writing to be adapted. THAT SAID, I keep coming back to this channel - and interviews with Peter, in particular - because I find it really helps me lock into some essentials and refocus on what I am trying to write and how I am going to accomplish that.

I like the way he thinks

Good interview, way too many adverts though

*NOTES:* What makes a good story? 1 Point is: Embarrassment. Core wounds. Being able to see your characters vulnerabilities in big ways helps us to empathize with him. To piggy back off of where the emphasis should be at with characters and what makes us care about what a show; I listened to this interview with Sam Esmail and he said: "we lean on plot too much. We don't remember plot, we remember characters. We remember who they are, what they're about and the kind of choices they make, bad or good, and that will ultimately resonate more than the sequence of events that happen on the screen." Interview Source: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/jGSQnIiQgoJ6sp8.html Whenever you get the note, "he's not sympathetic" it's because we don't believe him, because he's boring to watch. We can sympathize with a complete A hole, we just have to believe him. Professional writers write even when what they're putting on the page is crap. It's the people who take a breath and don't write (because they know it'll be bad) that generally give up more easily. One way to avoid this problem is to write on a schedule. Discipline and diligence is the one of the biggest key ingredients to "making it." Fulfill a page count, meet the deadline, habits done over a great period of time build like compound interest in a savings account. There is no easy way to being "picked" by the gatekeepers of the studios. The great part of this is that it is easier than ever to get your project made via you making it yourself by learning screenwriting, cinematography, editing, grading, sound design, business/marketing, and boot strapping your way through getting something off the ground. The flip side to this coin is that it also requires us to generate more friction to get off the ground. Because it's easier, there's more noise. More people can do it. Because it's easier, there are less road blocks than ever to go out and make a ruckus.

I am an old persian writer, so , how can I contact you for development and improv ing my screen writing.Thnks Dr.H.Zolghadr

how do I procedurally get into Russell's classes?

... 56:22... (Door Opens) someone comes in... apparently NOT realizing there is an Interview in progress with Peter Russell... (Door SLAMS shut)... all the professionals don't miss a "Beat"... Peter Russell never wavers... "Bravo"...

Interesting

I understand what he's talking about and I agree for the most part, but the Super Hero genre crashing and burning? I think he needs to check the box offices again. In fact, the reason we keep getting more of it is because of its huge success. While the writing and stories being told aren't glamorous by any means, the majority of the population doesn't care. Give them mindless action scenes and Superheroes going at it with villains and it will sell. As made apparent by the recent DC films. They were critically ill-received, and the stories have been atrocious, but that didn't stop them from making bank at the box office.

Michael Mann made L.A Takedown as well. I think it was a pilot.

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I thought "killing a cat not saving a cat" was reference to a book lol.

"Good news! I'm giving you money! Bad news: I'm slapping you." I wonder if he was thinking ARABESQUE?

I've got a script that's 2.5 hours long and I was told it's too long! It'll never sell. I give up!

Man, his superhero movies are "crashing and burning" take, hasn't aged well

I liked captain America movie better than the comic….this guy knows something, I don’t know what???

How the hell does his have a dislike?!

36:53 David Milch ? :-)

Over 5 years later... YEAH superhero films are "crashing and burning" lol..... :eye roll:

Here's a few interesting points which relate: L.A. Takedown, Heat, and making it over to make better. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/nqacep9uaZlyw40.html

I love this guy. But in fairness he was WRONG about Superhero movies "crashing and burning" .

What the hell do happy pictures on Facebook have to do with screenwriting?

38:50 - Skyler White! This is what I was thinking of her all along. And to a lesser degree, Marie. I didn't connect with either of those two women, yet I was hook-line-and-sinker along with Jesse -- _a junkie._

I have a question. I've had this story I've been trying to write for quite a while now. I've tried writing it as a film script, a tv script, and a graphic novel script. Even now, I'm trying to write it as a novel. I don't want to abandon this story, because I can tell there is an incredible amount of potential. But no matter how many times I build and rebuild the characters and even the core plot, I just can't get it to work. Do you have any advice on what I can do to figure out just what is going wrong? I also thought you should know I've been trying to write this story since around the year 2008; and I just can't seem to get it out of my head.

Why would I try TV when I could write 15 or 20 more pages to a TV Script and have it be a movie for 5x the Budget? I like Eating. And Living.

I write many hours a day

So much for they're crashing and burning now

Superhero stories crashing and burning?

Bad superhero movies crash just like any bad movie but as far as I know great superhero movies are pulling in major money.

"Superhero movies are crashing and burning"...I hear a lot of people saying this, but the numbers don't lie. I think screenwriters that don't like the genre just hope it goes away rather than learning why they are so successful.

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The only thing I disagree with is why superhero he feels that superhero movies are now failing. They succeed because they have good stories and allowed us some escape. Those behind the films of the last few years are so concerned with injecting the ideology of Diversity Inclusion and Equity, that telling a good story no longer matters. The majority of moviegoers can see the propaganda saturating these products, and are not giving these films their time, or their money.

I respectfully disagree with the confession part ... We always show the character wound that's true but we should most of the time do it through screen not through them . As a Muslim god wanted all people to be safe from feeling embarrassed in front of other people. What bad deeds we do intentionally in front of others is enough , we shouldn't be an entirely open book to others thanks 🖤

Is it just me or he's sort of giving Owen Wilson vibes?

This guy clearly hasn't watched Captain America

I guess he just doesn't get Captain America

he hasnt even watched captain america

This guy's constant comments about super hero movies dying did not age well.

Interesting content, though the "writing is the most difficult job in the world" rhetoric is a bit ridiculous.

The TV series hero will never heal, he'll just keep bleeding. Thank you -- now I know to never start a new TV series, because movies are the only place I'll get a character arc or satisfying ending. What about miniseries, if you want something longer than a 2 hour story? Miniseries might be the perfect in-between child of the two.

His opening volley against superhero movies doesn't age well... at all.

"Superhero genre movies right now, is boring, is crushing, is burning" What alternate reality is this?

owen wilson why are you doing this???

.... I WRITE GREAT MALE CHARACTERS... Seriously I do... No Ego... just fact!

This buy is not a writer, he's a self-promoter. He is, to writing, what Donald Trump is to, well, basically everything. No professional screenwriting credits that I can find. This interview is a waste of an interview.

Does anyone else notice that his lips are freakishly huge?

He is a comic book HATER. He doesnt know much about the comic world

Thank you for the sensational interview with Peter. So sad that he left us. 🥲