THE DIALOGUE: Learning From the Masters is a groundbreaking series of in- depth interviews with some of today's most successful writers.

Host Mike De Luca, president of production at New Line Cinema, gets writers to share their work habits, methods and inspirations, secrets of the trade and sometimes eye-opening stories of life from within the trenches of the film business.

It's powerful knowledge - straight from the source.

These DVDs make essential viewing for screenwriters, serious film lovers and other film industry professionals by offering a rare insight into the professional screenwriter's life in Hollywood.



On this DVD: John Hamburg
“All you have is your voice and your unique take on the world. If you can follow that and forget about everything else, that’s where you’ll achieve success.” - John Hamburg

John Hamburg is a very funny guy. After starting a humor magazine called The Dalton Lampoon in high school and making a popular comedic short film about “slacker bomb defusers” while attending NYU’s graduate filmmaking program,  Hamburg wrote and directed the crime comedy Safe Men, which played at  Sundance and spawned a devoted cult following. A sure-thing comedy closer,  he New York City native built hilarious set pieces and character work into Meet the Parents, Zoolander, and Meet the Fockers that not only helped lift them to huge box office but also pushed a few new catchphrases into the American lexicon.

A veteran of the uncredited production rewrite, Hamburg also wrote and directed the romantic comedy Along Came Polly in 2004. In this amusing interview, Hamburg discusses how he developed his talent for writing actor-hooking dialogue in the humorous monologues he performed in college, why he’d do a thousand test screenings if he could, and what it’s like to hand a new scene to Robert De Niro and stand there waiting to see if he likes it.
    
Running Time: 90 minutes