Information: How to Learn Before Doing: The Life Cycle of a Screenwriter (3) If only there were a way to predict the future. An impossible promise that professional screenwriter ("The Last Round") and published author Peter Hanson attempts to deliver in his documentary film and book, both entitled "Tales from the Script". Hanson discusses the motivation behind the research for the book, and how he hopes aspiring screenwriters will be able to take away a lot of valuable advice from the interviews he assembled with screenwriting greats like 2-time Academy-Award winner William Goldman and acclaimed writer/director Paul Schrader.