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Jay Fingers

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Be Cool. Pre-Oscar-winning screenwriter.

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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 03/05/2025
Consume less. Create more.
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 09/04/2025
Just finished breakfast.
Fairfax breakfast sandwich from Eggslut.
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 08/04/2025
Manifesting. 😌
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 30/03/2025
🥲
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 25/03/2025
Me in the national security team group chat.
Dr. Evil.
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 22/03/2025
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 16/03/2025
Once again, my dumb ass has decided to drink coffee late at night. Well, I slept all day so… 🤷🏾‍♂️
A coffee mug with a silhouette of a woman’s head containing the words “Virgo,” “observant,” and “worrier.” A few dried drops of coffee pepper the top half of the mug.
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 13/03/2025
🥲
Screencap of Jake Ryan (Michael Schoeffling) from the 1984 film “Sixteen Candles.” Text on the image reads: “Jake Ryan turns 65 this year… in case you haven't felt betrayed enough by 2025.”
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 13/03/2025
I’m sorry but this is dumb as shit.
A dumbass post from Threads with the following highlighted: “The human characters being real people instead of cartoons means we're going to lose a lot of expressive qualities in their performances. I just can't see how [a] human actress can fully capture the emotional depth...”
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 13/03/2025
🙂‍↕️
An old tweet of mine reading, “Really not interested in commentary on hip-hop music or culture from those not of the culture.”
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 13/03/2025
Show me the last pic of you from before things went sideways in 2020. I’d just returned to LA from trips to NYC and Memphis. I was feeling vv optimistic about my screenwriting career and life out West. LOL. And yes @armakproductions.com, that is your script I’m holding. 😆
Early 2020 pic of Jay, feeling mad confident that things were going to work out. LOL how wrong I was. 🥲
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 11/03/2025
In addition to Danny’s recommendation, I’m a huge fan of “The Hollywood Standard” by Christopher Riley.
“The Hollywood Standard” by Christopher Riley
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 11/03/2025
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 04/03/2025
For breakfast I had soft scrambled eggs, potatoes, bacon, and salad.
Breakfast consisting of soft scrambled eggs, potatoes, bacon, and salad.
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 03/03/2025
Marathon Burger is busy. Line down the street.
Marathon Burger on Melrose Avenue in LA. Marathon Burger on Melrose Avenue in LA.
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 02/03/2025
MY OSCAR PREDICTIONS
Best Picture - ANORA
Best Actor - Adrien Brody
Best Actress- Demi Moore
Best Supporting Actor - Kiernan Culkin Best Supporting Actress - Zoe Saldaña
Best Director - Sean Baker
Best Original Screenplay - The Substance Best Adapted Screenplay - Conclave
2:26 PM
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 28/02/2025
Nice! I’ll have to look out for that one. And as for the paper editions, I still have a few I ordered some time ago. I’m not an ebook person at all so I’ve been missing out on the newer ones. 😅
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 27/02/2025
Beenie Man and Mya’s “Girls Dem Sugar” remix speaks to me on a spiritual level.
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 23/02/2025
The absolute pain of forgetting to check that your camera has a memory card in it before leaving the house. 🥲
Screen of a Canon Powershot V10. At the top, it prominently says, “No card in camera.”
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 22/02/2025
FINALLY saw #OneOfThemDays. Very cute, very funny. Nice throwback to those ‘90s hood comedies. And it’s very VERY LA. 😆
Title card for “One of Them Days.” Yes, I am one of those people. Don’t gimme no shit. 😌
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 20/02/2025
😁
Freshman college-era Jay in his dorm room. A Macintosh Performa 200 sits on his desk.
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 20/02/2025
This will be my final post saying this: If you ain’t up on Bill’s “Secrets of Action Screenwriting,” you’re missing out. The teachings in this book are applicable to screenwriting in general, not just for action scripts. ijs
Me, holding a hard copy of Bill Martell’s “The Secrets of Action Screenwriting,” which probably hard to find now. Good luck.
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 19/02/2025
🥲
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 17/02/2025
The ‘Gram seems to love this one. #SNL50
Photo of yours truly, sitting at the “Saturday Night Live” Weekend Update desk, holding a sign reading, “Live from New York… It’s Saturday Night!” The SNL50 logo is on the front of the desk.
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 15/02/2025
Impulse purchase at the theater. These are all blindly packaged so I am overjoyed that I got this one.
Sam Wilson (in full Captain America costume) collectible bag clip.
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 14/02/2025
I wish personal GIFs worked on this app. HAPPY VALENTIMES!
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 13/02/2025
🤣🤣 Saw this earlier.
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 13/02/2025
Not me. I don’t care about sports or none of that shit. I just like me some tall women.
A Mickey Mouse mascot costume, with a seemingly suggestive expression, looking right at you.
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 12/02/2025
Recent selfie, bald, wearing a screenplay-themed T-shirt. Older selfie of me, bald, in a pink button-up, standing in front of a cereal box wall.
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 12/02/2025
An old tweet of mine reading: “Really not interested in commentary on hip-hop music or culture from those not of the culture.”
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 12/02/2025
If you see this, post a photo from your device with no explanation.
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 12/02/2025
Screenshot of a tweet by me where I quote, “There’s a lot of anger and schadenfreude to process.”
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 11/02/2025
This part is killinggggggggggg meeeeeeeee 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 10/02/2025
How I’m feeling? It doesn’t matter Cuz you know I’m OK 👌🏾 Instead, I ask myself, “Why do you worry?” You know, you know, I’m the same… I know, I know you don't love me, baby… They’re trying to take you away from me.. Only over my dead body…”
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How I’m feeling?
It doesn’t matter
Cuz you know I’m OK 👌🏾 
Instead, I ask myself, “Why do you worry?”
You know, you know, I’m the same…
I know, I know you don't love me, baby…
They’re trying to take you away from me..
Only over my dead body…”
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 07/02/2025
#ScriptSky
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 06/02/2025
I wouldn’t be mad at that!
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 04/02/2025
I was going to make a “plug into the skull like the Matrix” joke but I couldn’t make it work. 🤣🤣🤣 But IIRC we had to hook it up to a regular TV with an RF switch.
Old-school RF switch.
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 03/02/2025
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 22/01/2025
“Did we tho?”
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 21/01/2025
Some say it’s formula, but I disagree. I think it’s a good guide when it comes to structure. Makes plotting easier. But don’t become beholden to page numbers, thinking certain beats *must* arrive at certain points. Take from it all what works for you and apply to your scripts. 👍🏾👍🏾
Three books from the “Save the Cat” series: the OG, “Strikes Back,” and “Goes to the Movies.”
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 20/01/2025
Promo photo for the NBC sitcom “30 Rock.”
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 20/01/2025
Artwork for Brownstone’s cover of “I Can’t Tell You Why,” originally recorded by the Eagles.
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 20/01/2025
Huey Lewis is considered yacht rock, right?
Artwork for the single “Stuck with You” by Huey Lewis and the News.
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 20/01/2025
The original tho.
White label of a remix of “Couldn’t Love You More” by Sade.
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 20/01/2025
Probably this.
Spray bottle of Method all-purpose cleaner. French lavender scent.
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 20/01/2025
Coffee.
Winston Wolf (Harvey Keitel) silently approving the coffee he’s drinking while Vincent (John Travolta) and Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) skulk in the background in a scene from “Pulp Fiction.”
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 20/01/2025
Mo’ Better Blues
Denzel Washington as Bleek Gilliam in Spike Lee’s “Mo’ Better Blues.”
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 20/01/2025
I’m just gonna say “What’s Going On,” “What’s Happening Brother,” and “Flyin’ High” because that’s the album I associate most with those Saturday morning cleanups. 😅
Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” album cover
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 18/01/2025
I hate this.
Me, in a mask, because outside still reeks of smoke and other fuckin’ toxins.
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Jay Fingers @jayfingers.com · 18/01/2025
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy. 🤣🤣 You know what? Yes. Yes, this is correct.
Filmmaker David Lynch, after answering a question, being told by an interviewer, “Elaborate on that,” and Lynch responding, “No.”
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