Some colleges and universities offer majors in screenwriting. Otherwise, you are well advised to major in literature and language so that you can master the art of storytelling and then be able to craft your story in the language in which you want to write your script.
Also, when you're not studying in school, you can read as many film scripts as you can find, and watch as many movies as possible.
The screenwriter is the person that writes the script. The script includes all of the dialogue and some of the setting and stage directions.
Not at all. To be a screenwriter you only need to have something interesting to tell or/and a good friend in the business.
A screenwriter.
A screenwriter writes scripts.
No, the director seldom writes the screenplay. The director always directs the film, and the screenwriter always writes the film. Sometimes the director writes the screenplay and sometimes the screenwriter directs the film, but these are rare occurences.
Robert Dunn - screenwriter - was born in 1978.
Michael Ross - screenwriter - was born in 1919.
Michael Ross - screenwriter - died in 2009.
John Grant - screenwriter - was born in 1891.
John Grant - screenwriter - died in 1955.
Robert Hopkins - screenwriter - was born in 1886.
Robert Hopkins - screenwriter - died in 1966.
Jonathan Goldstein - screenwriter - was born in 1968.
Richard Jefferies - screenwriter - was born in 1956.
Philip Martin - screenwriter - was born in 1938.
Alan Campbell - screenwriter - died in 1963.
Alan Campbell - screenwriter - was born in 1904.