"I find the craft of screenwriting to be like making cabinets or something. I really had to learn how to nail the nails" - Jose Rivera

Jose Rivera's pivotal screenplay for The Motorcycle Diaries was one of the most celebrated works of 2005. It earned him Writers Guild, BAFTA and Academy Award® nominations, and was his first major screenplay. His foray into movies came after establishing himself as an award-winning playwright and a hugely accomplished writer for television, where his credits include co-creating and producing the critically-acclaimed television series “Eerie, Indiana.” In this interview, Rivera discusses how his theatre training helped pave the way to screenwriting and why he compares the writing process to building cabinets. The Puerto Rican-born writer also talks about his latest project, the adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s literary classic On the Road, which re-pairs him with Diaries director Walter Salles.

DVD Chapters
1. Intro
2. The Jew-Alert Button
3. I Intentionally Wrote Shitty Dialogue
4. Shut Out the Noise
5. Two Different Ways of Looking at a Story
6. The Legend of Jack Kerouac
7. Film Can Raise Consciousness
8. You Don’t Wanna Make That Kind of Movie
9. Sometimes Fiction Has a Hard Time Keeping Up
10. Let Ambiguity Happen
11. Nothing but a Collar and Some Hair
12. A Film is a Vehicle for Emotion
13. A Gun for Hire
14. Memory Babe

THE DIALOGUE: In these in-depth discussions some of today's most successful screenwriters share their work habits, methods and inspirations, secrets of the trade, and eye-opening stories from life in the trenches of the film business. It's powerful knowledge-straight from the source.

DVD-Video - 87 min - Digital Dolby 2.0