Michael Schilf

I live in Los Angeles, where being on time for a party is social suicide, yet my roots are from…

My uncle spent two years in a Texas penitentiary for stealing a cab with a butter knife, driving it to…

You’re an alumnus at a networking event when you see the nametag: Josiah Frazier. Great name. There’s a file for…

In 1999, I wrote a script titled Sausage. It was a comedy about a struggling gay opera singer who finally…

There’s a horrible misconception that writers are drunken, chain-smoking, free spirits who use a pharmacy of stimulants to maximize productivity…

Scenes can come in all shapes and sizes: a one-sentence establishing, a half-page aftermath, a three-page reversal, the list goes…

The husband strolls in from work. He’s drunk. A lonely meal is set on the dinning room table. A single…

Alien, Jaws, Godzilla… man vs. creature.  Earthquake, Titanic, Twister… man vs. disaster. Face Off, Speed, Die Hard… man vs. man. High Concept. The title alone tells the whole…

If you want to lose weight, it’s no secret what you should do: eat right and exercise. Yet we want…