My first favorite screenwriter (or screenwriters) is the Coen Brothers. My favorite screenplays of theirs are:
- Blood Simple (1984)
- Raising Arizona (1987)
- Miller’s Crossing (1990)
- Barton Fink (1991)
- Fargo (1996)
- The Big Lebowski (1998)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
- The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001)
- No Country for Old Men (2007)
- Burn After Reading (2008)
- A Serious Man (2009)
- True Grit (2010)
- Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
- Bridge of Spies (2015)
- Hail, Caesar! (2016) [On set pic above]
- The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
My second favorite screenwriter is Charlie Kaufman. My favorite screenplays of his are:
- Being John Malkovich (1999)
- Adaptation. (2002)
- Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- Synecdoche, New York (2008)
- Anomalisa (2015) [On set pic above. Kaufman is on the left]
My third favorite screenwriter is Paul Schrader. My favorite screenplays of his are:
- Taxi Driver (1976) [On set pic above. Schrader is on the left]
- Obsession (1976)
- Blue Collar (1978)
- Hardcore (1979)
- American Gigolo (1980)
- Raging Bull (1980)
- Cat People (1982)
- Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
- The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
- Light Sleeper (1992)
- Affliction (1997)
- Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
- First Reformed (2018)
My fourth favorite screenwriter is Quentin Tarantino. My favorite screenplays of his are:
- Reservoir Dogs (1992)
- True Romance (1993)
- Pulp Fiction (1994) [On set pic above]
- Jackie Brown (1997)
- Kill Bill (2003-2004)
- Death Proof (2007)
- Inglourious Basterds (2009)
- Django Unchained (2012)
- The Hateful Eight (2015)
- Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood (2019)
My fifth favorite screenwriter is Kenneth Lonergan. My favorite screenplays of his are:
- You Can Count on Me (2000)
- Margaret (2011)
- Manchester By the Sea (2016)
My sixth favorite screenwriter is Noah Baumbach. My favorite screenplays of his are:
- Kicking and Screaming (1995)
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
- The Squid and the Whale (2005)
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
- Greenberg (2010)
- Frances Ha (2013)
- While We’re Young (2015)
- The Meyerowitz Stories (2017)
- Marriage Story (2019)
My seventh favorite screenwriter is Richard Linklater. My favorite screenplays of his are:
- Slacker (1990)
- Dazed and Confused (1993)
- Before Sunrise (1995)
- Waking Life (2001)
- Before Sunset (2004)
- A Scanner Darkly (2006)
- Bernie (2012)
- Before Midnight (2013)
- Boyhood (2014)
- Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) [On set pic above]
My eighth favorite screenwriter is Aaron Sorkin. My favorites screenplays of his are:
- A Few Good Men (1992)
- Charlie Wilson’s War (2007)
- The Social Network (2010)
- Moneyball (2011)
- Steve Jobs (2015) [On set pic above. Sorkin is on the right]
- Molly’s Game (2017)
My ninth favorite screenwriter is David Lynch. My favorite screenplays of his are:
- Eraserhead (1977)
- The Elephant Man (1980)
- Blue Velvet (1986)
- Wild at Heart (1990)
- Lost Highway (1997)
- Mulholland Drive (2001) [On set pic above]
My tenth favorite screenwriter is Paul Thomas Anderson. My favorite screenplays of his are:
- Hard Eight (1996)
- Boogie Nights (1997)
- Magnolia (1999)
- Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
- There Will Be Blood (2007)
- The Master (2012)
- Inherent Vice (2014) [On set pic above]
- Phantom Thread (2017)
My eleventh favorite screenwriter is Stanley Kubrick. My favorite screenplays of his are:
- The Killing (1956)
- Paths of Glory (1957)
- Dr. Strangelove (1964)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
- Barry Lyndon (1975) [On set pic above]
- The Shining (1980)
- Full Metal Jacket (1987)
- Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
My twelfth favorite screenwriter is Wes Anderson. My favorite screenplays of his are:
- Bottle Rocket (1996)
- Rushmore (1998)
- The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)
- Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
- Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
- The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) [On set pic above]
