Thanks. What a great crowd last night! Glad you had as good a time as I did.

Me: Gardening is a hobby I really like to unwind through. Scientists: We just confirmed plants scream when they're cut, injured, or dehydrated. Me: ...and now I'm incredibly stressed about the emotional well-being of plants. So nice to -- unwind 😫

I like the spin, The New York Times! I think I'll adopt it when people ask how my day was... Breaking News: humankind's Derek Robertson got out of bed but fell short of their most ambitious goals when hit with an existential crisis minutes into their day.

The one thing no one tells you about screenwriting is how much of your life will be spent trying to figure out how to get act breaks off their own separate pages.

Parasite - 📱 Uncut Gems - 📱 Get Out - 📱 Glass Onion / Knives Out - 📱 Barbarian - 📱 The Invisible Man - 📱 Top Gun Maverick - 📱 Many filmmakers have used smartphones effectively. There will always be storytellers drawn to contemporary drama and those drawn to nostalgic.

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As the Beastie Boys said, you gotta fight for your write...rs! Pretty sure that's how that went. #ScreenwritersEverywhere #WGAStrike #WGCsupportsWGA

The magic of tv is a room full of writers. Brains bouncing off one another coming up with twists one brain never could. It's a room full of different lived experiences and different ways of seeing the world that give characters an emotional complexity one auteur could never match

Watching Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie exhort the gospel of seeing movies on the big screen at a sneak preview of Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1 (what are you waiting for, get tickets to see the movie how it was intended!)

Find me up in the sky now too: bsky.app/profile/derekr…