Sheldon Turner is the prototype for the smart, brash, ambitious young screenwriter - only he's also got a law degree from NYU and has had his fiction published in the New Yorker. Turner recently broke through with his script for the 2005 remake of The Longest Yard, starring Chris Rock and Adam Sandler, and he has half a dozen other scripts in development. He's got insane discipline, writes longhand, and boycotts email. He figured out how to work the system, and he's got more witty axioms for how to play the Hollywood game than a Tropicana craps dealer at 3 am. But you'll just have to hear Turner talk to get it - what being the biggest guy in the room can do for you, how to read an audience, what to say in pitch meetings, and why you should let everyone know that you think Lost in Translation sucks.

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Running Time: 89 minutes

DVD Chapters 1. Intro 2. Anger Is A Great Energy 3. Everybody Wants to Say Cool Dialogue 4. You Gotta Kill Your Children 5. The Freaky Guy Hanging Out in the Bathroom 6. They Actually Want to Make This? 7. I Gave The Money Back 8. Content Void 9. The Steak and the Sizzle 10. Take That Goddamn Thorn Out 11. An 18-Karat Control Freak 12. Insert Cry Here 13. A 22-Year-Old Semi-Retarded Kid 14. Most People Don't Read Samples 15. What's Better Than Killing Nazis?