Cherry Potter is a film writer, cultural commentator and psychotherapist.
Cherry Potter has an MA in film and television from the Royal College of Art.
As a television writer, Cherry Potter contributed to the hospital-based drama series Angels. She has worked as a freelance script writer for film, television and the theatre. She was formerly Head of Screenwriting at the UK National Film and Television School. She has run courses on film and creative writing in Europe and North America including the Canadian Centre for Advanced Film Studies and the EU Media Programme for European Screenwriters.
Cherry Potter is the author of three film books:
- Image, Sound and Story, the art of telling in film (Secker and Warburg, 1990);
- Screen Language: From writing to film making (Methuen, 2001);
- I Love You But…Seven Decades of Romantic Comedy (Methuen, 2002).
She also is an occasional broadcaster and she writes on film, culture and relationships for The Guardian and The Times.
She is also a member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy and a member of the Institute of Group Analysis.
Famous quotes containing the words cherry and/or potter:
“Lay down, lay down the bigly bier,
Lat me the dead look on;
Wi’ cherry cheeks and ruby lips
She lay an’ smil’d on him.
O ae sheave o’ your bread, true-love,
An’ ae glass o’ your wine,
For I hae fasted for your sake
These fully day [is] nine.”
—Anna Gordon Brown (1747–1810)
“Steam was till the other day the devil which we dreaded. Every pot made by any human potter or brazier had a hole in its cover, to let off the enemy, lest he should lift pot and roof and carry the house away.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)