# Interview

Eight minutes of movie, zero spoken lines, and I still can barely write about it without crying.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Guy Nattiv sat down with LA Screenwriter’s John Bucher to discuss the process that lead to his film getting made as well as his own creative practice.

Well, that’s the most difficult part of the story to address. There was something so dehumanizing about the whole enterprise.

"My dad gave me solemn advice: when the going gets tough, just do the next right thing right.”

The “in-between” can be a lonely place—growing up Black in the capital of the Confederacy can make it even lonelier.

I have no reason to be scared of anything, ever. 2018 could have been a death punch to me as a comedian. That kind of beating is almost unheard of as a stand-up comic. But I proved to myself that I can rise up to the biggest occasions.

Meredith Glynn's path through the industry not only illustrated one way a lot of writers break in, but it also pointed out some mistakes or missed opportunities in my own career.

Yet here she was, about to make the biggest pitch of her life: requesting a promotion to staff writer on the sixth and final season of a show some call the best on television.

You may not have heard Brian Lynch’s name, but you definitely know his work. He’s one of the writers behind Hop, Puss in Boots, and Minions—the eleventh highest grossing animated movie of all time.

“There’s a specific flavor of darkness that only comes from an inner scream ..."

Only the bravest writers dare to share their difficulties, embarrassments, and addictions with their audiences. Charlene deGuzman is just such a brave writer.

That’s when she says she had her Slumdog Millionaire moment: the moment her training in the arts, animation, theater, film, and television all came together.

LA Screenwriter’s John Bucher interviews director Ron Howard on "Hillbilly Elegy."

But instead of falling victim, she became independent, argumentative, curious, and precocious.

“It really did feel like, ‘We’ve never seen one of your kind before.’”