Fast, Cheap & Written That Way: Top Screenwriters on Writing for Low-Budget Movies

It’s like taking a Master Class in screenwriting … all in one book!

Discover the pitfalls of writing to fit a budget from screenwriters who have successfully navigated these waters already. Learn from their mistakes and improve your script with their expert advice.

'I wish I'd read this book before I made Re-Animator.'—Stuart Gordon, Director, Re-Animator, Castle Freak, From Beyond

The book covers (among other topics):


- Academy-Award Winner Dan Futterman (“Capote”) on writing real stories
- Tom DiCillio (“Living In Oblivion”) on turning a short into a feature
- Kasi Lemmons (“Eve’s Bayou”) on writing for a different time period
- George Romero (“Martin”) on writing horror on a budget
- Rebecca Miller (“Personal Velocity”) on adapting short stories
- Stuart Gordon (“Re-Animator”) on adaptations
- Academy-Award Nominee Whit Stillman (“Metropolitan”) on cheap ways to make it look expensive
- Miranda July (“Me and You and Everyone We Know”) on making your writing spontaneous
- Alex Cox (“Repo Man”) on scaling the script to meet a budget
- Joan Micklin Silver (“Hester Street”) on writing history on a budget
- Bob Clark (“Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things”) on mixing humor and horror
- And more!

This is the book for anyone who’s serious about writing a screenplay that can get produced!