Creative Principles

Brian Taylor never considered a career outside of filmmaking. In this interview, the writer director discusses being a show runner for 'Happy!' on SyFy and his new horror film, 'Mom and Dad.'

Taylor talks about his influences (Stephen King, Steven Spielberg, George Romero), how he chose to go big with 'Mom & Dad,' directing two very different sides of Nicolas Cage, and how to get oddball movies to the fans that love them.

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In Ben Younger’s 'Bleed for This,' Miles Teller steps into the ring to play Vinny Pazienza, the Rhode Island boxer who won three titles after breaking his neck in a horrific car accident.

Best known for his work on 'Boiler Room' (2000) and 'Prime' (2005), writer-director Ben Younger connected with the uplifting comeback story after his own ten-year hiatus from Hollywood.

Younger discussed the pros and cons of taking ten years off from screenwriting, boxing films as parables, and choosing what story to tell.

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Netflix’s action-comedy, 'True Memoirs of an International Assassin,' stars Kevin James (King of Queens, Hitch) as novelist Sam Larson. When Larson’s latest book is published as nonfiction, he is mistaken for a real assassin, and has to take on the role of his own character to survive.

In this interview, screenwriter Jeff Morris discusses writing characters into a corner, collaborating with a single goal in mind, and how to balance action and comedy. Don’t forget to also check out the print interview, which also has comments from director Jeff Wadlow on the website, www.CreativePrinciples.Live

Chef Vivian Howard started working in restaurant kitchens because she was interested in food writing. Her first cookbook, 'Deep Run Roots,' is the culmination of that pursuit. This book won the Cookbook of the Year Award and the Julia Child First Book Award. In addition, she is the Peabody Award- Winning Cocreator of the PBS series, 'A Chef’s Life.' In this interview, she tells us about the foods that define her, the recipe that made her feel like a professional, the unusual tools and ingredients that she must have in her kitchen, and about her new restaurant in Wilmington, North Carolina.

'From Nowhere' follows three undocumented Bronx teenagers, who are on the cusp of graduating high school while also trying to earn their papers that will keep them in the United States. Based on the play by co-writer Kate Ballen, the film is directed and written by Matthew Newton. The Australian actor-writer-director discusses going home with your characters, the importance of the “leaning forwards” moment, and the constant process of revelation in childhood.

'The Man Who Knew Infinity' stars Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire, The Newsroom) as Srinivasa Ramanujan, an unparalleled genius of mathematics who earns a seat at Cambridge University during World War I, where his theories are mentored by professor G. H. Hardy, portrayed by Jeremy Irons (The Man in the Iron Mask, Batman V. Superman). The British biographical drama is based on the 1991 book by Robert Kanigel and it took writer and director Matt Brown over ten years to get his screenplay written and produced.

Led by Ethan Hawke, 'Born to Be Blue' is trying to expand beyond the limitations of past music biopics. The film opens with legendary producer Dino De Laurentiis approaching musician Chet Baker to develop a film about Baker’s life. At the time, the jazz musician was down on his luck in Europe and jumped at the opportunity. Using a film-within-a-film style of storytelling, writer and director Robert Budreau invites audiences to watch a black-and-white documentary-style performance before cutting away to reveal a scene within a scene.

The Hollars screenwriter Jim Strouse is a storyteller who collects life’s intimate moments, weaving his films from the fabric of the everyday: the way a wife speaks to her husband, a simple haircut, a tire swing. The resulting films 'New York, I Love You,' 'The Winning Season,' and 'People Places Things,' can almost be said resemble family photo albums brought to life. In 'The Hollars,' directed by and starring John Krasinkski (The Office), John Hollar is forced to return to his hometown after news of his mother’s illness, and there reconnects with his dysfunctional family.

In this interview, screenwriter Andrew Bergman talks about how ‘Blazing Saddles’ got made and what led to his Criterion Collection film, ‘The In-Laws.’ Bergman describes working with iconic director Mel Brooks and Richard Pryor, along with what happened when Marlon Brando called him about a bizarre Michael Jackson movie idea that never got made. Make sure to also check out our print interview with Mel Brooks over at the Creative Principles website.

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Writer-Director Michel Franco penned the script for ‘Chronic’ after his grandmother got terribly ill. In the film, Tim Roth’s character David is a home care nurse who works with terminally ill patients. When Franco and Roth met at Cannes, it was clear that the actor wanted to be involved with the director’s next project. For this collaboration, the duo wanted to talk about end of life.