Interview (Video): Ed Solomon

From Season 11 of the PBS series “On Story”.

n association with the Austin Film Festival and KLRU-TV, the PBS series “On Story” is a must for anybody interested in screenwriting, movies, and/or TV. This week in the 11th season of the series, a conversation with Ed Solomon whose film-writing credits include Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey, Men in Black, Charlie’s Angels, Now You See Me, and Bill & Ted Face the Music.

Quote: “If you follow something you’re curious about, what gradually happens is you get something much deeper than passion. You actually get intimacy. You develop a deeper attachment to it. Then your job becomes how to remain intimate with it, but also being objective. It’s like a dance between being deeply inside something, then stepping way outside.”

I wrote about something similar in this article: Two Writing Functions: Receptive and Executive.

There are dozens of videos in the “On Story” archives which you can access here.

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