Scott Rosenberg Biography

Fast Facts

• Sponsors a screenplay writing contest each year at Boston University's Redstone Film Festival with fellow alumnus Gary Fleder
• Attended the film school programs at the University of Southern California, UCLA, and New York University, but didn't graduate from any of them
• Graduated from Boston University in 1985 with a degree in Communications
• Has been writing since elementary school, when he would write poems to read to his class
• Quote: "(On getting started in the business): "I really think if you're a real writer, you should be writing․ You should be doing whatever you have to do to put food on the table, but it should never get in the way of the writing․""
• Quote: "(On the script for "Beautiful Girls"): "I didn't think it was special․ It was a piece of catharsis․ It was entirely written for myself․ Which is probably why it resonated with so many people․ And, inexplicably, still does to this day․""
• Best known as the writer and producer of the TV series "Happy Town" and "Life on Mars" and the writer of the films "Gone in Sixty Seconds," "High Fidelity," and "Con Air․"