Interview: Screenwriter Isabel Dréan on “3 Films That Have Impacted Your Adult Life”

Join screenwriter Stuart Wright as he dives into movies that changed your life with screenwriter Isabel Dréan, in this engaging episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life. Explore All About Eve impact, The Godfather 2 analysis, and The Memento influence on her personal growth and cinema’s transformative power. Isabel Dréan also discusses querying and mentoring, how most writers approach querying the wrong way and why mentorship has made her a better writer.

1. All About Eve – Isabel Dréan shares how when she first watched All About Eve it was dubbed into French. How, in all her childhood she has never been more enthralled by a movie. At 12 years it made her want to be an actor like Bette Davis.
2. The Godfather 2 – Isabel Dréan shares how The Godfather 2 is a film she watched very young. How she was obsessed with the actor and proponent of ‘method acting’ Lee Strasberg and how that became her dream to study at the Lee Strasberg Institute – which she did in 1993 – stepping into the footsteps of her heroes from The Godfather Part 2.
3. Memento – Isabel Dréan talks about how Memento is a perfect movie made with very little resources. Not having big stars – at the time – made it feel more real; more raw. She envies the creative relationship Christopher Nolan has with his brother which makes them challenge each other and continues to make them better filmmakers as a result.