Jovan Alexander

When it feels impossible to understand the movie industry and how you’re going to make it work, that’s where you put your head down and write your stories. That’s all you were ever meant to do. Create. Storytell. Not predict shifts in a constantly changing industry.

I understand the advice ‘stick to one genre’ making you easier to market. But, as someone with 4 different genre scripts, I’m hoping showing diversity is also a plus for some managers.

All my mama cared about was that I was reading 😂

Thank God for the real ones.

I tell new screenwriters all the time, “notes” are a trick. The execs are testing you to see if you submitted a less than perfect script. If you take any of their notes you are admitting failure. That’s why you must respond to every notes email with “lol”

If you could survive for a month with only the food you have in your home right now, you’re incredibly fortunate. It’s staggering how much food Americans throw away each week. One of my resolutions for 2026 is to be less wasteful. (More): realistically I could “survive”, skin and bones, 4-5 months. Would it be pretty/fancy? No. But I wouldn’t starve to death. Yet, as an American, I feel like we (me/my lady) currently need groceries because we’re “out of” certain non-necessities. I get it, capitalism, GDP, workforce etc., still, feels kinda wasteful.

Screenwriting books try to convince you that you can write a story by algorithms, but that's not how the greatest movies in history were written (cocaine).