Business

Your one-sheet is not the place to tell everybody everything. It is the place to earn the next conversation.

Filmmakers routinely spend years making a movie and several weeks thinking about who will watch it. Reverse that.

A screenplay becomes easier to understand when the people, plan and market around it begin taking shape.

Passion gets people interested. Preparation keeps them in the room.

Many filmmakers begin financing conversations too early. Before asking where the money is, ask whether the project is ready for money.

Finishing a movie is an accomplishment. But finishing the movie and building a future for the movie are two completely different jobs.