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Lew Hunter, a legendary teacher of screenwriting, has assembled the ultimate masters class. What an extraordinary resource! If you're passionate about movies and the scripts that inspire them, you need to get NAKED.--Ted Tally, Academy Award-winning screenwriter How awesome for the reader to experience what it feels like to be on the inside of this process. A crash course from some of the most decorated writers and producers of our time!--Anna Marie Sinatra, TV and radio personality, author, and speaker, SinatraSolutions.com In sincere hopes that something has been provided within Lew Hunter's collection of interviews Naked Screenwriting that will be useful to our beloved young cinema artists.--Francis Ford Coppola

Hunter (Screenwriting 434) collects interviews with 22 prize-winning screenwriters in this top-notch volume . . . offer[ing] unique access to a wide array of talent. It's a treasure trove for Hollywood historians and aspiring screenwriters alike.--Publishers Weekly Novice and professional screenwriters alike can find advice and solace from this marvelous collection of interviews. Lew is a master teacher, and this book extends his work in the classroom to us all.--Alexander Payne, director/writer/producer Lew Hunter, a legendary teacher of screenwriting, has assembled the ultimate masters class. What an extraordinary resource! If you're passionate about movies and the scripts that inspire them, you need to get NAKED.--Ted Tally, Academy Award-winning screenwriter How awesome for the reader to experience what it feels like to be on the inside of this process. A crash course from some of the most decorated writers and producers of our time!--Anna Marie Sinatra, TV and radio personality, author, and speaker, SinatraSolutions.com In sincere hopes that something has been provided within Lew Hunter's collection of interviews Naked Screenwriting that will be useful to our beloved young cinema artists.--Francis Ford Coppola

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"Lew Hunter is an American screenwriter, author and educator and is chairman Emeritus and Professor of Screenwriting at the UCLA Department of Film and Television. Over half of the Oscar winning scripts over the past twenty years have been written by students of Hunter. His former students and advocates include such people as Adrienne Parks, Allison Anders, David Koepp, Mike Werb, Sacha Gervasi, Dan Pyne, David Titcher, Diane Saltzberg, Michael Colleary, Don Mancini, Kathy Stumpe, Darren Star, Alexander Payne and Tom Shadyac. Other students include Chuck Loch, Paige Macdonald, Robert Wolfe, Joel Schumacher, Megan Steinbeck, Robert Roy Poole, Lon Diamond, Laurie Hutlzer, Pamela Gray, William Missouri Downs, Robin Russin, Brad Silberling, Greg Widen, and many others. Steven Spielberg has called Hunter ""the best screenwriting teacher going""."

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