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🇯🇵🇺🇸 screenwriter/director/idiot. Host of @SocialWriterPod . STL Blues fan. Please like all my tweets. Thanks. I love u. Rep: @EpicenterMGMT

St. Louis, MO

https://t.co/DHW4bABv4m

Joined April 2009

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Andy Compton

5 months

Hey, y'all! Our short film, CAPTCHA, is back on YouTube! Logline: When his roommate fails to complete a simple internet captcha, a paranoid man begins to suspect he may be living with a robot. Watch, like, subscribe, share, all that! Love you all ❤

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CAPTCHA (2023) - a sci-fi thriller horror comedy short film

When his roommate struggles to complete an internet captcha, a paranoid man begins to suspect he may be living with a robot.We made this thing with minimal c...

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Andy Compton

2 years

This makes me laugh every time I see it. Every single time. I am 34 years old.

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2 years

"We want grandkids." Best I can do is write a screenplay about the childhood trauma you caused me

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Andy Compton

1 year

Ke Huy Quan revealing that Jeff Cohen (Chunk from the Goonies) is now his entertainment lawyer and did his deal for EEAAO makes the Ke Huy Quan comeback story that much sweeter

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1 year

There are 365 days in 2023. If you write just 40 pages a day, that's 14,600 pages, or 146 feature screenplays. Stop making excuses. Write 146 movies in 2023.

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1 year

Why am I even alive

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17-Year-Old to Direct A24 Horror Movie over His Summer Vacation

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1 year

Studio execs Amazon cart right now

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1 year

Leave Twitter just because it’s fallen into disrepair under terrible leadership? Babe, I’ve worked on student film sets

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1 year

@ladytuono I loved this monologue from everything everywhere

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2 months

The greatest love story of the year, Lorraine and Maynard in AMERICAN FICTION

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3 years

Screenwriters write 3 pages then hop on twitter like "i just wrote 3 pages"

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2 years

My favorite piece of screenwriting advice will always be, "Simple plot. Complex characters."

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2 years

@SteveWBeee @PETlTEGF Understandable

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2 years

Could a depressed person do this???? *starts writing a screenplay about their life*

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2 years

99% of writing is just doing this

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8 months

This is insane. The fact that they're so adamant about hiding viewership data immediately tells me we NEED to see the viewership data. I really hope this is non-negotiable for the WGA. That's just ridiculous.

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The WGA says the AMPTP's current offer only allows six WGA staffers to view "limited streaming viewership data" and "no writer can be told by the WGA about how well their project is doing."

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2 years

When writing a screenplay, try to make it good. Then people won't think it's bad

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2 years

Oh no not the peepee poopoo man tweet doing numbers

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3 years

Being a screenwriter is cool until it's time to write a screenplay

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3 years

Did it hurt? When you worked on a script for months then saw a trailer for a new movie that was pretty much the exact same premise as your script?

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3 years

Movie trailer: FROM THE IMAGINATION OF (DIRECTOR) Screenwriter:

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3 years

Hot tip for screenwriters

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3 years

SCREENWRITING TIP: make sure your screenplay is super good. Then people will like it.

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2 years

BURIED starring Ryan Reynolds was such a scary concept because it's like, "imagine you're buried alive and your key to being rescued is a cell phone from 2006"

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Andy Compton

2 years

Screenwriters only want one thing and it's an email containing good news

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Andy Compton

3 years

Five yrs ago I thought I was taking a screenPRINTING class but it was actually a screenwriting class and now im here. Writing scripts. Zero custom t-shirts. Life is a sick joke.

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2 years

Every film student has that one short film they've erased from their memory for mental health reasons

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2 years

All facts

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1 year

Also, I'm really rooting for Ke Huy Quan in awards season. What a performance. His "please be kind" monologue moves me to tears every time. The character switches, the fight choreography. He put his heart and soul into that performance. Best supporting actor let's fuckin gooooo

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3 years

CDC says it's safe for screenwriters to send a revised version of a script to someone who still hasn't read the first version they sent

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3 years

Stop👏rewriting👏while👏you👏write👏and👏allow👏yourself👏to👏write👏a👏shitty👏first👏draft👏 (this is for me)

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Andy Compton

2 years

Tonight, for the first time ever, I received money I earned from screenwriting. It may have been from a competition and not a job, but hey. It's money from writing. I'm going to buy a Ferrari.

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3 years

It's cool I get to call myself a screenwriter when I'm actually just working through my insecurities and childhood trauma through fictional people I literally just made up lol

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Andy Compton

3 years

SILF (script I'd like to finish)

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Andy Compton

2 years

It's nice to have it confirmed that this is indeed the funniest thing in the history of the world

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2 years

🙂

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2 years

Raw dogging screenwriting (writing pages with no outline)

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Andy Compton

3 years

I love talking to other screenwriters. We are all insane

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Andy Compton

3 years

Wrote my entire script in bold. I don't care anymore

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1 month

Kinda big news--I received my first ever payment for screenwriting! It only took 10 years since the first time I tried to write a screenplay. We're still in the weeds of trying to get this thing made, but it's an exciting milestone nonetheless. (1/2)

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Andy Compton

2 years

I didn't sell my first script until I was 16 years old. There's still time. Keep going ❤

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Andy Compton

3 years

Direct deposit: +1400 Me entering a screenwriting contest: give me the submission + feedback

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Andy Compton

3 years

Trying to break into the film industry

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Andy Compton

2 years

Getting ready to write my 6th feature screenplay

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1 year

Good news y'all. My mom says she's going to send an angry email to netflix. This strike may be over sooner than we thought

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3 years

Holy shit

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2 years

Being an amateur filmmaker is fun because you get to do a ton of work and make no money from it

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2 years

Quick question for screenwriters --why?

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2 years

Just wrote a scene description and 2 lines of dialogue. I'm beat

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Andy Compton

3 years

Brendan Fraser and Keanu Reeves could do a movie together just called "Movie" and we would all go see it in theaters

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1 year

Btw, this is taken from this THR Roundtable. It's a great one. One of my favorites and I've seen a bunch.

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Actors Roundtable: Austin Butler, Brendan Fraser, Ke Huy Quan, Adam...

Austin Butler ('Elvis'), Colin Farrell ('The Banshees of Inisherin'), Brendan Fraser ('The Whale'), Jeremy Pope ('The Inspection'), Ke Huy Quan ('Everything ...

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Andy Compton

2 years

Creating my own brand of screenwriting software that audibly says, "put your phone down" every 7 minutes

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1 year

ATTENTION SCREENWRITERS: In 2023, "We see..." is out. "We spy with our little eye..." is in.

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2 years

Me for like the entire second half of Everything Everywhere All at Once

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2 years

Found out today one of my favorite filmmakers passed on a script I wrote BUT the fact that they saw my name and even considered it for a second has me hyped haha

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2 years

SCREENWRITING TIP: When pitching a project, try to make them like the stuff you're saying

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2 years

SCREENWRITERS, do NOT post your loglines on twitter. I will personally steal your ideas

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3 years

SCREENWRITERS WHO HAVE PITCHED--can we make this a big thread of advice you'd give a first-time pitcher? I feel like a lot of us Pitch Week people would appreciate it. Ok fine it's me. I'm people. Help me. Idk what I'm doing

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2 years

“It was going to be a CGI rainbow,” Baker says. But two weeks before the cast and crew were scheduled to shoot the scene, “suddenly there’s everybody going, ‘There’s a rainbow over the motel!’" One of my favorite little indie movie magic stories.

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Andy Compton

3 years

Just got an email from a huge film studio and I'm excited to announce that they want me to join their mailing list for incredible offers

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3 years

My house if i stop entering screenwriting competitions

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3 years

If twitter didn't exist, I would have written like 500 scripts by now

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Andy Compton

2 years

Summoning 🕯 🕯 🕯 tweets 🕯 that celebrate 🕯 the small wins of 🕯 my screenwriting 🕯 friends 🕯 🕯 🕯

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2 years

If my mom sees this she WILL buy it for me for christmas

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Andy Compton

2 years

From my short time taking meetings as a screenwriter, the thing industry folks have responded to most has been VOICE. Had it confirmed to me again today--structure can be fixed, formatting can be taught, but you can't teach voice. Tweeting because we bicker so much about "rules."

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3 years

J crew wants $80 for a shirt. Theyre out of their minds. For that kind of money I could get rejected from another screenwriting competition

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3 years

Screenwriting competitions are such a ripoff. Cashing in on our hopes and dreams. This year, I will be submitting to every single one of them

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3 years

I consider myself a screenwriter first, a filmmaker second, and a dumbass overall

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1 year

Writers watching this

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Zaslav getting hit with a Pay Your Writers chant in Boston. This is so good.

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2 years

A big part of my writing process is slouching in chairs and absolutely destroying my spine

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Andy Compton

1 year

Guys, we did it. This tweet was seen by the hollywood foreign press and we fucking did it

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Ke Huy Quan accepting his award for Best Supporting Actor at the #GoldenGlobes

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2 years

@ screenwriting twitter

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Woman's Spirit Crushed By Honest Feedback She Requested:

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2 years

Yeah sex is cool but have you ever said "ok fuck this outline" and just started writing 🥴

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2 years

It's crazy when people on here are like, "I wrote 37 pages today." You did what????

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2 years

To all my writer friends--I sincerely hope you get whatever opportunity you're chasing right now unless it's the same opportunity I'm chasing, then I hope I get it

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2 years

Signed my first shopping agreement for a feature i wrote. Friend took a pic after I hit send 🙂

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2 years

Bad time to be a filmmaker right now because apparently everyone hates everything

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2 years

Screenwriters will literally write a screenplay

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Andy Compton

3 years

It has been pure hell holding in my excitement about this for 2 days but I can finally say it...both my scripts made the Nicholl Semifinal cut! This is crazy. Thank you @TheAcademy and congrats/good luck to the other SFs out there!

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2 years

The main reason I want to make a movie with A24 someday is to see how they would do the logo in the trailer

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3 years

Finished season 1 of Ted Lasso last night and it felt like a masterclass on TV writing

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Andy Compton

3 years

If you stick around screenwriting twitter long enough you'll get to watch people grow as writers and drop new projects and place in contests and get reps and catch their big breaks right in front of your eyes and it's awesome. That's the fun part about this God forsaken website

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2 years

4 questions every writer should ask themselves before sending out that next script... 1) Am I original? 2) Am I the only one? 3) Am I sexual? 4) Am I everything you need? You better rock your body now

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1 year

Film industry people in January are like "don't talk to me until I've had my sundance"

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3 years

I swear if I get rejected by 30 or 40 more screenwriting competitions I'm gonna stop entering them

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2 years

Part of my writing process is looking at my phone every 10 minutes

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2 years

My short film is playing at Sundance!!!! Just lying lol it's not

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2 years

The screenwriting twitter challenge: try not to be shitty to people

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Andy Compton

2 years

Credit to @krisstraub for this timeless masterpiece. I've laughed at it literally every time I've seen it over the years. Thank you

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Andy Compton

2 years

Goals for 2022 - sell a screenplay - work out consistently - kick flip over a house - do peyote in the desert - make another short film - destroy the Mona Lisa

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Andy Compton

2 years

NEED TO work on my pilot rewrite but I WANT TO work on my new feature outline so I'm GOING TO play video games and see where that takes me

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2 years

I'm in the WGA!!!! Writers guild of Andy. It's just me

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3 years

Remember it's all subjective. The same script of mine that finished Top 50 in the Nicholl this year was set on fire then peed on by a wild pack of unpaid interns at a production company the year before. You never know how readers will respond to your work

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11 months

Film festival rejections are hilarious because you literally pay someone to watch your film and they're like, "yeahhhhh noooooo we're good"

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2 years

I like reading "we see" and "we hear" in a script. You're the one who wrote the shit. Tell me what's goin on lol

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Andy Compton

2 years

DON'T SUBMIT TO A SCREENWRITING COMPETITION WITH A FIRST DRAFT

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Andy Compton

2 years

Super excited to announce that I'm officially repped by Jarrod Murray ( @theofficialword ) at @EpicenterMgmt ! What a way to end 2021. I'm beyond thrilled to join this awesome team and get to work in 2022!

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2 years

BREAKING: Tik Tok has just added Aaron Sorkin to their new "Content Creation" initiative that will teach long-form screenwriters to become short-form content creators

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I'm a big Cord fan now. His directorial debut is an absolute banger--funny, sweet, bold, thought-provoking. Wins an Oscar and his speech is meaningful to his peers and audiences alike. This dude rules.

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Cord Jefferson calling out Hollywood during his Oscar speech…hell yes “Instead of making one $200 million movie, try making twenty $10 million movies or fifty $4 million movies”

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2 years

"You have a bachelor's degree in Scriptwriting" I say to myself as I Google how to write a logline for the 400th time

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It's true that a career in writing is 99% rejection. That's why it's important to focus on the other 1%, which is being ghosted

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