Over
the years we have recorded interviews with over 40 prominent writers about
their careers and about their working lives and practices. Completed interviews
are available for viewing in the Writers Guild Foundation Shavelson-Webb Library.
Interviews available in the library include:
Edward Anhalt, Walter Bernstein, Charles Bennett, Robert Benton, Robert Blees, Irving Brecher, Marshall Brickman, James L. Brooks, Lionel Chetwynd, Bob Carroll & Madelyn Pugh Davis, David Dortort, Julius J. Epstein, John Gay, Bo Goldman, William Goldman, Austin & Irma Kalish, Fay Kanin, Millard Kaufman, Hal Kanter, Christopher Knopf, Norman Lear, Ernest Lehman, William Link, David Lloyd, Allan Manings, Garry Marshall, Arthur Marx, Richard Matheson, Frank Pierson, Abe Polonsky, Carl Reiner, Del Reisman, Bill Richmond, Lorenzo Sample, Alvin Sargent, Bob Schiller and Bob Weiskopf, Arnold Schulman, Sherwood Schwartz, Mel Shavelson, Sidney Sheldon, Leonard Stern, Dan Taradash, Robert Towne, Billy Wilder
Stockpiled interviews (yet to be edited) include:
Jean Rouverol Butler, Devery Freeman, Everett Greenbaum, William Ludwig, Loring Mandel, John Mantley, John McGreevey, David Swift
Stockpiled interviews will be edited as funds become available.
Click here for screenwriter interviews for sale
on DVD.
This project needs funds! Each interview costs about $1,500 to tape and edit – and with overhead it’s more. For a donation of $2,500 you can have your name on the back-end credits of a finished DVD: “This interview was made possible through the generosity of…..” plus all the usual perks and acknowledgements offered to Foundation donors. Just let us know that you would like your donation to be applied to the Writer Speaks program.