In this insightful conversation, Kieran explores the idea of how he uses healthy internal creative pressure to write winning screenplays for the Hollywood movie-making community. Kieran's screenwriting credits include Snowden, The Homesman, Wormwood (Netflix), and The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez.
In preparation, I re-watched Snowden, and viewed Wormwood for the first time. If youre curious about global politics both today and in past years, please view both Snowden and Wormwood.
When Kieran writes, he imagines that hes the person in the movie theater watching the movie. Kierans goal is to react to his writing sentence by sentence in the same way hed react as the viewer watching the movie in the movie theater.
Kieran tells us how in the surprising circus of Hollywood movie-making, you never know what might happen, when it will happen, or who might help when it does. Thats why its a good to make and keep friends.
Kieran offers several tips on how to develop your screenwriting skills. Kieran recommends studying literary pieces as if they were malleable, imperfect, entirely fallible attempts.
This approach gives you the license to view the literary work as a rough draft. Try pretending the word was written by somebody you dont like. Funny, yet workable idea, dont you think?
Kieran reports that Hollywood is rapidly moving into the high-quality podcast arena? So if you have a podcast idea, who knows, Kieran says, you might find a bigger audience out there than you ever imagined.
Indeed, we all have something important to say. If youd like to start podcasting, go ahead, dive in and tell your story. You probably have more fans than you think.
