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: Susannah Grant

“There’s no scene in that movie that wasn’t rewritten any fewer than 35 times. I mean constantly, constantly rewriting.”– Susannah Grant

Susannah Grant received an Oscar nomination® in 2001 for her screenplay based on the life of working-class heroine Erin Brockovich. The AFI graduate and Nicholl Fellowship winner first started out writing for the television show Party of Five, and then went on to pen the scripts for Ever After and 28 Days. Following her nomination, Grant adapted In Her Shoes and Charlotte’s Web, as well as write and direct Catch and Release, starring Jennifer Garner. In this interview, learn all about the midwife vs. mother role of novel adaptations, the importance of finding your voice and why sometimes you just have to be able to really, really suck.