This is a great collection of interviews with screenwriters on how they have honed their craft and how they approach adapting novels and plays of other writers and occasionally their own.
The writers are usually asked the same questions, occasionally veering off track when required to gain further insight into a particular film they have adapted or what their intention was with how they have changed things from the book to the screen. What this does is enable you to see how each writer uses different techniques and tools of their trade to overcome the same issues they all come up against. Examples are if the writer is afraid of adapting a classic or well-loved book to closely they keep to the book or play they are adapting.

Each interview is quite thorough and analytical, and through his extensive research, Alistair Owen gets each writer to provide an honest and open interview each time.

An excellent book for those interesting in film and writing.

An extremely helpful guide with useful information for writers of all kinds and interesting insights into the world of screenplay-making. It's made me watch films very differently.

A really interesting collection of in-depth interviews by screenwriters who focus on adaptation of period dramas and contemporary novels, as well as turning non-fiction works into fictional stories. They each discussed specific details about two of their projects, as well as talking about writing craft in more general terms. Absolutely fascinating - I read/listen to a lot of authors discussing writing, but prose is a very different beast to screenwriting, and this was a perfect indication of that, from the best of the best.

Damn, where was this puppy last autumn as I was adapting a novel into a screenplay as a capstone project?? Very helpful and valuable resource.